The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 145
It takes a good deal of prodding to put up a gun-bullock.”
Who acts: It, good deal · What happens: take, prod, put up · To what, where: good deal, gun bullock
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 (It, good deal), 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 | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 prodding | mark |
| 7 | prodding | prod | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 deal | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 prodding | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bullock | det |
| 12 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bullock | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 gun | punct |
| 14 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | It | a good deal | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prod | gerund | a good deal not said here | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put up | to-infinitive | a good deal not said here | a gun bullock | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bullock=Goal |
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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