The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 11
Rann had never seen Mowgli before, though of course he had heard of him.
Who acts: Rann · What happens: not see, hear · To what, where: Mowgli
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rann), 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 | Rann | Rann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 seen | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 heard | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 13 heard | advmod |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 of | fixed |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | aux |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 seen | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | Rann | Mowgli | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mowgli=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | Rann | of Mowgli | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of he=Stimulus |
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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