The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 13
There was a bazaar close by, and only three hours’ work a day.”
Who acts: bazaar, three hours · What happens: be, work
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bazaar, three hours), 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 | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bazaar | det |
| 4 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bazaar | amod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 close | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 work | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 work | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 three | advmod |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hours | nummod |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 work | nsubj |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 hours | punct |
| 13 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 work | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a bazaar | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | present | three hours | day | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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