The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 10
Shiv, who poured the harvest and made the winds to blow, Sitting at the doorways of a day of long ago, Gave to each his portion, food and toil and fate, From the King upon the _guddee_ to the Beggar at the gate.
Who acts: Shiv · What happens: pour, make, blow, sit, give · To what, where: harvest, winds, doorways, portion, gate
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shiv), 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 | Shiv | shiv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poured | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 poured | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 poured | nsubj |
| 4 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 harvest | det |
| 6 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poured | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 poured | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 winds | det |
| 10 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 blow | mark |
| 12 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sitting | punct |
| 14 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 blow | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 doorways | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 doorways | det |
| 17 | doorways | doorway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Sitting | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 doorways | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ago | case |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 ago | advmod |
| 23 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 20 day | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Gave | punct |
| 25 | Gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 poured | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 portion | case |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 portion | det |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 portion | nmod:poss |
| 29 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Gave | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 food | punct |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 portion | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 toil | cc |
| 33 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 food | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fate | cc |
| 35 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 food | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 King | punct |
| 37 | From | from | ADP | _ | 39 King | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Gave | obl |
| 40 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 43 guddee | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 guddee | det |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 guddee | punct |
| 43 | guddee | guddee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Gave | obl |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Gave | punct |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 Beggar | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Beggar | det |
| 47 | Beggar | Beggar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Gave | obl |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 gate | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 gate | det |
| 50 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Gave | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | Shiv | the harvest | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Shiv not said here | the winds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wind=Product | ||||
| 3 | blow | to-infinitive | Shiv not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | Shiv not said here | the doorways of a day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at doorway=Location | ||||
| 5 | give | past | Shiv not said here | Little's portion and food and toil and fate | the gate | from the King; upon the guddee; to the Beggar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent to portion=Recipient at gate=Asset |
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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