The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 138
He has seen three generations of us feed him and groom him, and he will live to see four.”
Who acts: grandson, three generations · What happens: see, feed, groom, live · To what, where: grandson, four
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 (grandson, three generations), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 generations | nummod |
| 5 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feed | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 generations | nmod |
| 8 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feed | iobj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 groom | cc |
| 11 | groom | groom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feed | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 groom | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 live | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 live | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 live | aux |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 live | xcomp |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | grandson | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | feed | present | three generations of us | grandson | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | groom | infinitive | three generations of us not said here | grandson | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live | future | grandson | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | grandson not said here | four | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer four=Stimulus |
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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