The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 10
He may have belonged to some little native king’s establishment, fifty or sixty or a hundred miles away.
Who acts: two, native king · What happens: belong, establish
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, native king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 belonged | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 belonged | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 belonged | aux |
| 4 | belonged | belong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 establishment | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 king | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 native | amod |
| 8 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 king | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 establishment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belonged | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fifty | punct |
| 13 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 miles | nummod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 sixty | cc |
| 15 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 fifty | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 hundred | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hundred | det |
| 18 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 fifty | conj |
| 19 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 away | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 belonged | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | may · perfect | two | to some native king's establishment; away property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | establish | some native king | nom establishment «act transitive»: poss=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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