The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 9
This running up and down among the hills is not the best Government service.
Who acts: This, running · What happens: run up, not be · To what, where: hills, best Government service
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 (This, running), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 running | nsubj |
| 2 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 service | csubj |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 running | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 down | cc |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 up | conj |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 hills | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hills | det |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 running | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 service | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 service | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 service | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 service | amod |
| 13 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 service | compound |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 service | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | gerund | This | the hills | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | running | the best Government service | 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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