The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 123
“On the rubbish heap by the stables, mourning for Nag.
Who acts: rubbish heap · What happens: mourn
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rubbish heap), 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 heap | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 heap | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heap | det |
| 4 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heap | compound |
| 5 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 stables | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stables | det |
| 8 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heap | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mourning | punct |
| 10 | mourning | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 heap | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Nag | case |
| 12 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mourning | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn in a quote | gerund | the rubbish heap by the stables not said here | for Nag | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for nag=Attribute |
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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