The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 148
The seventh pair had a new yoke, and they looked rather stiff and tired.
Who acts: seventh pair, guns · What happens: have, look · To what, where: new yoke
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seventh pair, guns), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pair | det |
| 2 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pair | amod |
| 3 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 yoke | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 yoke | amod |
| 7 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 stiff | advmod |
| 13 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tired | cc |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stiff | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the seventh pair | a new yoke | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoke=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | guns = gun | stiff property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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