The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 33

The ants are eating all the others down by the melon bed.”

Who acts: ants · What happens: eat down · To what, where: others

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 (ants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ants	det
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 others	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 others	det
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	4 eating	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bed	det
11	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bed	compound
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat down	present · progressive	the ants	all others				by the melon bed	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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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