The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 42
Shere Khan roared still in the night, for he was very angry that Mowgli had not been handed over to him.
Who acts: Shere · What happens: roar, be, not hand over · To what, where: Mowgli, Shere
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 (Shere), 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 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 roared | nsubj |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shere | flat |
| 3 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 roared | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 angry | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 angry | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 angry | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 angry | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 angry | advmod |
| 13 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 roared | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 handed | mark |
| 15 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 handed | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 handed | advmod |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 handed | aux:pass |
| 19 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 angry | advcl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 handed | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 handed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | Shere | still; night | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Shere | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not hand over | past · perfect · passive | Mowgli | Shere | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |
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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