The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 43
He was dead before the big man blew him in two.
Who acts: boy, big man · What happens: be, blow · To what, where: boy
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 (boy, big man), 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 dead | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dead | cop |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 blew | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blew | nsubj |
| 8 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dead | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 blew | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 two | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 blew | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | the big man | boy | in two | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient in two=Topic |
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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