The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 131
All the Jungle-People admire us for our skill and our cunning.”
Who acts: Jungle People · What happens: admire · To what, where: us
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 (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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 People | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 People | det |
| 3 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 People | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jungle | punct |
| 5 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 admire | nsubj |
| 6 | admire | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 admire | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 skill | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 skill | nmod:poss |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 admire | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cunning | cc |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cunning | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skill | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 admire | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 admire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | present | all Jungle People | us | for our skill and our cunning | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus for skill=Attribute |
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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