The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 125
The Monkey-People, watching in the trees, considered his play most wonderful.
Who acts: Monkey People, Mowgli · What happens: watch, consider, play · To what, where: trees, play
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 (Monkey People, Mowgli), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 People | det |
| 2 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 People | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Monkey | punct |
| 4 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 considered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 watching | punct |
| 6 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 People | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 watching | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 People | punct |
| 11 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 play | nmod:poss |
| 13 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 considered | obj |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 wonderful | advmod |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 considered | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | the Monkey People not said here | the trees | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | consider | past | the Monkey People | Mowgli's play | wonderful property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent play=Attribute | |||
| 3 | play | Mowgli | nom play «communication intransitive»: 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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