The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 6
That will be good, Kala Nag, but not so good as this hunting in the jungles.”
Who acts: That · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: jungles
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kala | punct |
| 6 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 good | obl |
| 7 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Kala | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 good | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 good | advmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 hunting | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 hunting | det |
| 15 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 good | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 jungles | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 jungles | det |
| 18 | jungles | jungle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 good | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | That | Kala obl; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | That not said here | the jungles | as this hunting | 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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