The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 146
Here is another ford, and we must swim the calves.
Who acts: ford, we · What happens: be, swim · To what, where: calves
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 (ford, we), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 ford | det |
| 4 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swim | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 swim | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 swim | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 swim | aux |
| 9 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ford | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 calves | det |
| 11 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swim | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | another ford | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | must | we | the calves | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme calf=Trajectory |
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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