The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 71
Then Shere Khan would flatter them and wonder that such fine young hunters were content to be led by a dying wolf and a man’s cub.
Who acts: Shere, such fine young hunters, dying wolf · What happens: flatter, wonder, be, lead, die · To what, where: wolves · Speech: someone speaks here
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, such fine young hunters, dying wolf), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 flatter | advmod |
| 2 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 flatter | nsubj |
| 3 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shere | flat |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 flatter | aux |
| 5 | flatter | flatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flatter | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wonder | cc |
| 8 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 flatter | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 content | mark |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hunters | amod |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hunters | amod |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hunters | amod |
| 13 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 content | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 content | cop |
| 15 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wonder | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 led | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 led | aux:pass |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 content | advcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 wolf | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wolf | det |
| 21 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 wolf | amod |
| 22 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cub | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cub | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 man | case |
| 27 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wolf | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flatter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatter | would | Shere | wolves = wolf | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | infinitive | Shere not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | such fine young hunters | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lead | to-infinitive · passive | a dying wolf and a man's cub | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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