The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 176
The dawn was beginning to break when Mowgli went down the hillside alone, to meet those mysterious things that are called men.
Who acts: dawn, Mowgli · What happens: begin, break, go down, meet, call · To what, where: hillside, mysterious things · 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 (dawn, Mowgli), 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 | 2 dawn | det |
| 2 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beginning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | aux |
| 4 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 break | mark |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beginning | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 went | advmod |
| 8 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 break | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 hillside | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hillside | det |
| 12 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meet | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 break | conj |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 things | det |
| 18 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 meet | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 things | acl:relcl |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | the dawn | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | break | to-infinitive | the dawn not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go down | past | Mowgli | the hillside | alone property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hillside=Extent | |||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | the dawn not said here | that mysterious things | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | call | present · passive | that mysterious things | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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