The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 143
Our father was a sacred bull of Shiva.
Who acts: father · What happens: be · To what, where: sacred bull
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 (father), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bull | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bull | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bull | det |
| 5 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bull | amod |
| 6 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Shiva | case |
| 8 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bull | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Our father | a sacred bull | of Shiva | tree rules |
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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