The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 102
They are taken up mountains, anywhere that a mule can find a road, and they are very useful for fighting in rocky country.
Who acts: mule, pieces · What happens: take up, find, be, fight · To what, where: pieces, road, rocky country
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 (mule, pieces), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 taken | compound:prt |
| 5 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 taken | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 anywhere | punct |
| 7 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 taken | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mule | det |
| 10 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 anywhere | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 useful | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 useful | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 useful | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 useful | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 useful | advmod |
| 20 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 taken | conj |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 fighting | mark |
| 22 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 useful | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 24 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 country | amod |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fighting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | present · passive | pieces = piece | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mountain=Destination | |||||
| 2 | find | can | a mule | a road | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | pieces = piece | useful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fight | gerund | pieces = piece not said here | rocky country | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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