The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 67
“That’s his way of making friends.”
Who acts: That, way · What happens: be, make · To what, where: way, friends
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 making | mark |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 making | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | Tikki's way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | gerund | Tikki's way not said here | friends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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