The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 58
Is the family of Toomai of the Elephants to be trodden underfoot in the dirt of a Keddah?
What happens: be · To what, where: family, dirt
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: 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 trodden | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trodden | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Toomai | case |
| 5 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Elephants | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Elephants | det |
| 8 | Elephants | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Toomai | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 trodden | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trodden | aux:pass |
| 11 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | underfoot | underfoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trodden | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dirt | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dirt | det |
| 15 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trodden | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Keddah | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Keddah | det |
| 18 | Keddah | Keddah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dirt | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 trodden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | the family of Toomai of the Elephants | the dirt of a Keddah | tread property | tree rules |
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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