The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 106
They are very many, evil, dirty, shameless, and they desire, if they have any fixed desire, to be noticed by the Jungle People.
Who acts: People, Jungle People · What happens: be, desire, have, fix, notice · To what, where: fixed desire
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, Jungle People), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 many | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 many | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 evil | punct |
| 6 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 many | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dirty | punct |
| 8 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 many | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shameless | punct |
| 10 | shameless | shameless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dirty | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desire | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 desire | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 desire | nsubj |
| 14 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 many | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 desire | conj |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 desire | det |
| 20 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 desire | amod |
| 21 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 noticed | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 noticed | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 noticed | aux:pass |
| 25 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 desire | acl:relcl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 People | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 People | det |
| 28 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 People | compound |
| 29 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 noticed | obl:agent |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | People | many property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | People not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | desire | present | People | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | People | any fixed desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | notice | to-infinitive · passive | the Jungle People | any fixed desire not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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