The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 43
He shall follow the new trail, and the stale trail, and the mixed trail, with a clear eye!
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: follow, mix · To what, where: new trail
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 (grandfather), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | aux |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trail | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trail | amod |
| 6 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trail | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trail | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trail | det |
| 10 | stale | stale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trail | amod |
| 11 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trail | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 trail | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trail | det |
| 15 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 trail | amod |
| 16 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trail | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eye | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eye | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 eye | det |
| 20 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eye | amod |
| 21 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | shall | grandfather | the new trail | with a clear eye | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | |||
| 2 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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