The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 32
When they got back to camp it was time for the evening meal.
Who acts: Gods, folk · What happens: get back, camp, be · To what, where: time
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 (Gods, folk), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 camp | mark |
| 6 | camp | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 time | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | cop |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 camp | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 meal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meal | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meal | compound |
| 13 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | Gods = god | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | camp | to-infinitive | Gods = god not said here | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | folk | time | for the evening meal | tree rules |
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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