The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 15
He saw the husbandman’s wife get up and feed it in the night with black lumps.
Who acts: Akela, wife · What happens: see, get up, feed · To what, where: husbandman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Akela, wife), 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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 husbandman | det |
| 4 | husbandman | husbandman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 husbandman | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 get | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feed | cc |
| 10 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feed | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 lumps | case |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lumps | amod |
| 17 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 night | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Akela | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get up | present | the husbandman's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | feed | infinitive | the husbandman's wife not said here | husbandman | night | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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