The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 48
“Seeing that the leadership is yet open, and being asked to speak--” Shere Khan began.
Who acts: leadership, Shere · What happens: see, be, ask, speak, begin · 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 (leadership, Shere), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seeing | punct |
| 2 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 open | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leadership | det |
| 5 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 open | cop |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 open | advmod |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Seeing | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | aux:pass |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Seeing | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 speak | mark |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seeing | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seeing | punct |
| 17 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 began | nsubj |
| 18 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shere | flat |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Seeing | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the leadership | yet | open property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund · passive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | speak speech: other not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | begin | past | Shere | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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