The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 75
From her breast she plucked it, Parbati the thief, Saw the Least of Little Things gnawed a new-grown leaf!
Who acts: Shiva, Least · What happens: pluck, see, gnaw, grow · To what, where: breast, grown leaf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Shiva, Least), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 breast | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 breast | nmod:poss |
| 3 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plucked | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 plucked | nsubj |
| 5 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 plucked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Parbati | punct |
| 8 | Parbati | Parbati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 plucked | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thief | det |
| 10 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Parbati | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Saw | punct |
| 12 | Saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plucked | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Least | det |
| 14 | Least | Least | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 gnawed | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Things | case |
| 16 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Things | amod |
| 17 | Things | Thing | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Least | nmod |
| 18 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Saw | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 leaf | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grown | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 new | punct |
| 22 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 leaf | amod |
| 23 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gnawed | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | Shiva | breast | Shiva's breast | Parbati obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from breast=Source | ||
| 2 | see | past | Shiva not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gnaw | past | the Least of Little Things | a grown leaf | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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