The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 50
“Are we all jackals, to fawn on this cattle butcher?
Who acts: we · What happens: be, fawn · To what, where: jackals, cattle butcher
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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 jackals | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 jackals | cop |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 jackals | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 jackals | det |
| 5 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fawn | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fawn | mark |
| 8 | fawn | fawn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 jackals | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 butcher | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 butcher | det |
| 11 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 butcher | compound |
| 12 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fawn | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 jackals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | we | all jackals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fawn in a quote | to-infinitive | this cattle butcher | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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