The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 127
“In the melon bed, on the end nearest the wall, where the sun strikes nearly all day.
Who acts: sun · What happens: strike
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 (sun), 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 | _ | 10 nearest | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bed | det |
| 4 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bed | compound |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nearest | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bed | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bed | nmod |
| 10 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wall | det |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nearest | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strikes | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 strikes | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strikes | nsubj |
| 17 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wall | acl:relcl |
| 18 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 20 day | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strikes | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 nearest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike in a quote | present | the sun | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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