The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 77
Tis a pity to send that young jungle-cock to molt in the plains.”
Who acts: you, young jungle cock · What happens: tis, send, molt · To what, where: pity, plains
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 (you, young jungle cock), 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 | Tis | tis | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pity | det |
| 3 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tis | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 send | mark |
| 5 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pity | acl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 molt | mark |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cock | amod |
| 8 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cock | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 jungle | punct |
| 10 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 molt | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 molt | mark |
| 12 | molt | molt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 send | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 plains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plains | det |
| 15 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 molt | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tis | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tis | imperative | you not said here | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | you not said here | a pity not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | molt | to-infinitive | young jungle cock | the plains | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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