The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 9
It is a very soothing lullaby, and the first verse says:
Who acts: thumping, first verse · What happens: be, say · To what, where: soothing lullaby · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thumping, first verse), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lullaby | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lullaby | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lullaby | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 soothing | advmod |
| 5 | soothing | soothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lullaby | amod |
| 6 | lullaby | lullaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 says | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 verse | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 verse | amod |
| 11 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lullaby | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 lullaby | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | thumping | a soothing lullaby | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the first verse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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