The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 130
There he had half killed an insubordinate young elephant who was shirking his fair share of work.
Who acts: insubordinate young elephant, Kala · What happens: kill, shirk, share · To what, where: Kala, fair share, work
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 (insubordinate young elephant, Kala), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 killed | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 4 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 killed | advmod |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 elephant | det |
| 7 | insubordinate | insubordinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 elephant | amod |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 elephant | amod |
| 9 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 shirking | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shirking | aux |
| 12 | shirking | shirk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 elephant | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 share | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 share | amod |
| 15 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shirking | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 work | case |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 share | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Kala | there | half property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer elephant=Result | |||
| 2 | shirk | past · progressive | a insubordinate young elephant | Kala's fair share of work | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | share | Kala | work | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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