The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 45
“Men and their cubs are very wise.
Who acts: Men · What happens: be
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 (Men), 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 | _ | 8 wise | punct |
| 2 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wise | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cubs | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cubs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Men | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wise | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 wise | advmod |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Men and whiskers's cubs | wise property | 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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