The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 46
He may be a help in time.”
Who acts: man · What happens: be · To what, where: help
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 help | det |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | man | a help | time | 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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