The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 95

It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass.

Who acts: garden, large garden · What happens: be, cultivate · To what, where: large garden, bushes

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 (garden, large garden), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 garden	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 garden	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 garden	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garden	amod
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cultivated	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 cultivated	advmod
8	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 cultivated	advmod
9	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 garden	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bushes	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 bushes	case
12	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cultivated	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 big	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 big	advmod
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bushes	amod
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 houses	case
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 houses	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 summer	punct
19	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 big	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 roses	punct
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 roses	case
22	Marshal	Marshal	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 roses	compound
23	Niel	Niel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Marshal	flat
24	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cultivated	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lime	punct
26	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 roses	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 trees	cc
28	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 trees	amod
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 roses	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 clumps	punct
31	clumps	clump	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 roses	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 bamboos	case
33	bamboos	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 clumps	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thickets	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thickets	cc
36	thickets	thicket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 garden	appos
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 grass	case
38	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 grass	amod
39	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thickets	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 garden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	garden	a large garden					tree rules
2	cultivate	participle	a large garden not said here	bushes				of Marshal roses and lime and orange trees and clumps of bamboos; half property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=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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