The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 3
It was Karait, the dusty brown snakeling that lies for choice on the dusty earth; and his bite is as dangerous as the cobra’s.
Who acts: dust, dusty brown snakeling, bite, Karait · What happens: be, lie, bite · To what, where: Karait, dusty earth
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 (dust, dusty brown snakeling, bite, Karait), 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 | 3 Karait | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Karait | cop |
| 3 | Karait | Karait | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 snakeling | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snakeling | det |
| 6 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snakeling | amod |
| 7 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snakeling | amod |
| 8 | snakeling | snakeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Karait | appos |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lies | nsubj |
| 10 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 snakeling | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 choice | case |
| 12 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 15 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 earth | amod |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 dangerous | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dangerous | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bite | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dangerous | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dangerous | cop |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 dangerous | advmod |
| 23 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Karait | amod |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 cobra | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cobra | det |
| 26 | cobra | cobra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dangerous | obl |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 cobra | case |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Karait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | dust | Karait | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the dusty brown snakeling | the dusty earth | for choice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on earth=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | Karait's bite | as the cobra; dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bite | Karait | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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