The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 46
“The elephant-folk are out tonight.
Who acts: elephant folk · What happens: be
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 (elephant folk), 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 out | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 folk | det |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 folk | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 elephant | punct |
| 5 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 out | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 out | cop |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 out | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 out | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the elephant folk | tonight | out property | 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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