The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 89
“A bull paid ten years ago!” the Pack snarled.
Who acts: Pack · What happens: pay, snarl · To what, where: bull
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 (Pack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:310): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bull | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bull | det |
| 3 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snarled | ccomp |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bull | acl |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 paid | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 bull | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bull | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Pack | det |
| 11 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snarled | nsubj |
| 12 | snarled | snarl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 snarled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | participle | a bull not said here | ago property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | snarl | past | the Pack | vn animal_sounds-38 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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