The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 192
Be clean, for the strength of the hunter is known by the gloss of his hide.
Who acts: gloss · What happens: be, know, gloss · To what, where: clean strength, hide
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 (gloss), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 clean | cop |
| 2 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strength | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 strength | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 strength | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strength | det |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 known | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hunter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hunter | det |
| 9 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strength | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 known | aux:pass |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 gloss | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gloss | det |
| 14 | gloss | gloss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 known | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hide | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hide | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gloss | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | clean property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | the gloss of Kaa's hide | the clean strength of the hunter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | gloss | Kaa's hide | nom gloss «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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