The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 97
“A boy who can face a full Keddah at his age does not end in jails.
Who acts: boy · What happens: face, not end · To what, where: full Keddah, age, jails
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 (boy), 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 | _ | 15 end | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 end | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 face | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 face | aux |
| 6 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 boy | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Keddah | det |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Keddah | amod |
| 9 | Keddah | Keddah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 face | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 age | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 age | nmod:poss |
| 12 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 face | obl |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 end | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 end | advmod |
| 15 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 jails | case |
| 17 | jails | jail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 end | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face in a quote | can | a boy | a full Keddah | at boy's age | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent keddah=Destination | |||
| 2 | not end in a quote | present · do-support | a boy | jails | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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