The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 178
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled Once, twice and again!
Who acts: Sambhur · What happens: break, bell
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 (Sambhur), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 dawn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dawn | det |
| 3 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breaking | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breaking | aux |
| 5 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sambhur | det |
| 7 | Sambhur | Sambhur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 belled | nsubj |
| 8 | belled | bell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breaking | ccomp |
| 9 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 belled | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 twice | punct |
| 11 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 breaking | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 again | cc |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 twice | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 breaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · progressive | dawn | twice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bell | past | the Sambhur | once property | 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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