The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 25
When a battery--a screw-gun mule calls gun-bullocks gentlemen, he must be very badly shaken up.
Who acts: mule calls · What happens: gentleman, shake up · To what, where: battery
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 calls), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 shaken | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 battery | det |
| 3 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shaken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 gentlemen | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gentlemen | det |
| 6 | screw | screw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gun | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 screw | punct |
| 8 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mule | compound |
| 9 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calls | compound |
| 10 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gentlemen | nsubj |
| 11 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bullocks | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 gun | punct |
| 13 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gentlemen | compound |
| 14 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 battery | vocative |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 battery | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shaken | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 shaken | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 shaken | aux:pass |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 badly | advmod |
| 20 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 shaken | advmod |
| 21 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 shaken | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 shaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gentleman | mule calls | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | shake up | must · passive | a battery | badly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
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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