The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 53
Next week the catching is over, and we of the plains are sent back to our stations.
Who acts: catching · What happens: be, send back · To what, where: we, stations
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 (catching), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 week | amod |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 over | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 catching | det |
| 4 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 over | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 over | cop |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 sent | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 plains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plains | det |
| 12 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sent | obl |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | aux:pass |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 sent | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 stations | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stations | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sent | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the catching | week | over property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | send back | present · passive | we | our stations | of the plains | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme of plain=Initial_Location to station=Destination |
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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