The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 101
The screw-guns are tiny little cannon made in two pieces, that are screwed together when the time comes to use them.
Who acts: screw guns, time · What happens: be, make, screw, come, use · To what, where: tiny little cannon, two pieces, that, pieces
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 (screw guns, time), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guns | det |
| 2 | screw | screw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guns | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 screw | punct |
| 4 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cannon | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cannon | cop |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cannon | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cannon | amod |
| 8 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cannon | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pieces | nummod |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 screwed | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 screwed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 screwed | aux:pass |
| 16 | screwed | screw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cannon | conj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 screwed | advmod |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 comes | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 21 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 screwed | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 use | mark |
| 23 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 comes | xcomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 use | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cannon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the screw guns | tiny little cannon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | tiny little cannon not said here | two pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | screw | present · passive | that | together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | present | the time | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | use | to-infinitive | the time not said here | pieces = piece | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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