The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 31
Now, I have seen men thrust a dry branch into that stuff, and presently the Red Flower blossomed at the end of it.
Who acts: I, Red Flower · What happens: see, blossom · To what, where: men thrust, stuff, end
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 (I, Red Flower), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seen | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thrust | compound |
| 7 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 9 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 branch | amod |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 stuff | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 stuff | det |
| 13 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blossomed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 blossomed | cc |
| 16 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 20 blossomed | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Flower | det |
| 18 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Flower | flat |
| 19 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 blossomed | nsubj |
| 20 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blossomed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 end | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | men thrust | that stuff | now | tree rules | ||
| 2 | blossom | past | the Red Flower | at the end of end | presently property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
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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