The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 3
“The Government may pay for elephants, but they belong to us mahouts.
Who acts: Government, feet · What happens: pay, belong · To what, where: us
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 (Government, feet), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pay | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Government | det |
| 3 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 elephants | case |
| 7 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 belong | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 belong | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 belong | nsubj |
| 11 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 belong | obl |
| 14 | mahouts | mahout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | may | the Government | for elephants | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for elephant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | belong in a quote | present | feet = foot | us | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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