The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 95
“He is a very bad boy, and he will end in a jail, Sahib.”
Who acts: Toomai · What happens: be, end · To what, where: bad boy, jail
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 (Toomai), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 boy | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 boy | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 end | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 end | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 end | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 end | aux |
| 12 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 boy | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 jail | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 jail | det |
| 15 | jail | jail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sahib | punct |
| 17 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 jail | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 boy | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Toomai | a bad boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end in a quote | future | Toomai | a bad boy not said here | a jail | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector boy=Eventuality |
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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