The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 108
(That was my broken tent pole, and I was very glad to know it.)
Who acts: That, I · What happens: break, be, know · To what, where: broken tent pole, pole
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 (That, I), 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 pole | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pole | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pole | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pole | nmod:poss |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pole | amod |
| 6 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pole | compound |
| 7 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 glad | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 glad | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 glad | advmod |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pole | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 glad | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pole | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 pole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | That | my broken tent pole | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | I not said here | pole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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