The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 58
(The song that Toomai’s mother sang to the baby)
Who acts: song · What happens: sing · To what, where: that, baby
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 (song), 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 | _ | 8 sang | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sang | obl |
| 5 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Toomai | case |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 baby | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | obl |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the song | that | the baby | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to baby=Recipient |
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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