The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 6
It was in the days when Baloo was teaching him the Law of the Jungle.
Who acts: tiger, Baloo · What happens: be, teach · To what, where: Law, Mowgli
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 (tiger, Baloo), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 days | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 days | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 teaching | advmod |
| 7 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 teaching | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 teaching | aux |
| 9 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 days | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 teaching | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Law | det |
| 12 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 teaching | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Jungle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Jungle | det |
| 15 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Law | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 days | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tiger | in the days | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past · progressive | Baloo | the Law of the Jungle | Mowgli | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient law=Topic |
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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