The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 191
His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buffalo’s pride.
Who acts: spots, horns · What happens: be · To what, where: joy, pride
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 (spots, horns), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 spots | nmod:poss |
| 2 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 joy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 joy | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 joy | det |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Leopard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Leopard | det |
| 8 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 joy | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 pride | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horns | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pride | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 pride | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Buffalo | det |
| 14 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pride | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Buffalo | case |
| 16 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joy | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kaa's spots | the joy and the Buffalo's pride | of the Leopard | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Kaa's horns | the Buffalo's pride | 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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