The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 138
Thus and thus, then, do we beat dogs when we are men.
Who acts: we · What happens: beat, be · To what, where: dogs, men
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 beat | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thus | cc |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Thus | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 beat | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 then | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beat | aux |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 beat | nsubj |
| 9 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beat | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 men | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 men | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 men | cop |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beat | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present · do-support | we | dogs | then | thus property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | present | we | men | 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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