The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 55
When a leader of the Pack has missed his kill, he is called the Dead Wolf as long as he lives, which is not long.
Who acts: yell · What happens: miss, call, live, not be, kill · To what, where: leader, yell · 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 (yell), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 missed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leader | det |
| 3 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 missed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pack | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pack | det |
| 6 | Pack | Pack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leader | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 missed | aux |
| 8 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 called | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kill | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 missed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 missed | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | aux:pass |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wolf | det |
| 16 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Wolf | compound |
| 17 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 called | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 lives | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lives | nsubj |
| 22 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 long | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 long | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 long | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 long | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 long | advmod |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 called | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | present · perfect · passive | a leader of the Pack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | yell | long property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | live | present | yell | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | kill | yell | nom kill «act transitive»: poss=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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