The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 143
Indeed and truly, you’ve chosen a bad place to be lame in.”
What happens: choose, be · To what, where: you
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: 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 chosen | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 truly | cc |
| 3 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 1 Indeed | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 chosen | nsubj |
| 6 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | aux:pass |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lame | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lame | cop |
| 13 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lame | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · passive | you | indeed property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | lame property | tree rules |
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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