The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 126
“To show that he is not going any nearer to the smoke on the other side.
Who acts: mule · What happens: show, not go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mule), 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 | _ | 3 show | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 show | mark |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 going | advmod |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 show | ccomp |
| 9 | any | any | ADV | _ | 10 nearer | advmod |
| 10 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 going | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 smoke | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 smoke | det |
| 13 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nearer | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 side | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 side | amod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smoke | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | mule | near property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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