The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 106
Evil that plagued us is slain, Death in the garden lies dead.
Who acts: Evil · What happens: plague, be, lie · To what, where: us, garden
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evil), 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 | Evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slain | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 plagued | nsubj |
| 3 | plagued | plague | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Evil | acl:relcl |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 plagued | obj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 slain | cop |
| 6 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Death | punct |
| 8 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 slain | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lies | obl |
| 12 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 slain | parataxis |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lies | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plague | past | Evil | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Evil | Death obl; slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | the garden | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location |
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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