The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 15
He very much preferred the camp life, and hated those broad, flat roads, with the daily grubbing for grass in the forage reserve, and the long hours when there was nothing to do except to watch Kala Nag fidgeting in his pickets.
Who acts: Toomai, daily, Kala · What happens: prefer, hate, grub, do, watch, fidget · To what, where: camp life, broad flat roads, forage reserve, Kala, pickets
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 (Toomai, daily, Kala), 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 | 4 preferred | nsubj |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 preferred | advmod |
| 4 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 6 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 life | compound |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 preferred | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hated | cc |
| 10 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 preferred | conj |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 roads | det |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 roads | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 broad | punct |
| 14 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 roads | amod |
| 15 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hated | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 daily | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 daily | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 daily | det |
| 19 | daily | daily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hated | obl |
| 20 | grubbing | grub | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 daily | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 grass | case |
| 22 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grubbing | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 reserve | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 reserve | det |
| 25 | forage | forage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reserve | compound |
| 26 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grubbing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hours | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hours | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hours | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hours | amod |
| 31 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 preferred | obl |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 was | advmod |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 was | expl |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 hours | acl:relcl |
| 35 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 was | nsubj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 do | mark |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 nothing | acl |
| 38 | except | except | ADP | _ | 40 watch | mark |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 watch | mark |
| 40 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 do | advcl |
| 41 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 watch | obj |
| 42 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Kala | flat |
| 43 | fidgeting | fidget | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 Kala | acl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 pickets | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 pickets | nmod:poss |
| 46 | pickets | picket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 fidgeting | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 preferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | past | Toomai | the camp life | hour | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hate | past | Toomai not said here | that broad flat roads | with the daily | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | grub | gerund | the daily not said here | the forage reserve | for grass | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Toomai not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | watch | to-infinitive | Toomai not said here | Kala | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kala=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fidget | gerund | Kala not said here | Toomai's pickets | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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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