The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 86
He was receiving a visit from the Amir of Afghanistan--a wild king of a very wild country.
Who acts: camp · What happens: receive · To what, where: visit, Amir
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 (camp), 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 receiving | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 receiving | aux |
| 3 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 visit | det |
| 5 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 receiving | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Amir | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Amir | det |
| 8 | Amir | Amir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 visit | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Afghanistan | case |
| 10 | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Amir | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 king | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visit | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 wild | advmod |
| 18 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 receiving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · progressive | camp | a visit | the Amir of Afghanistan | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from amir=Source |
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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