The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 29
Besides, he may make better sport for you when he is grown.
Who acts: cub · What happens: make, grow · To what, where: better sport, cub
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cub), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 make | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 sport | amod |
| 7 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 grown | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grown | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grown | aux:pass |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 make | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | may | cub | better sport | for you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sport=Product for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | grow | present · passive | cub | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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