The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 128
“Chattering, foolish, vain--vain, foolish, and chattering, are the monkeys.
Who acts: Chattering · What happens: be · To what, where: monkeys
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 (Chattering), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chattering | punct |
| 2 | Chattering | chattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 monkeys | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 foolish | punct |
| 4 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Chattering | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vain | punct |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 foolish | conj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 vain | punct |
| 8 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 foolish | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 foolish | punct |
| 10 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 foolish | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chattering | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 chattering | cc |
| 13 | chattering | chattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Chattering | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chattering | punct |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 monkeys | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 monkeys | det |
| 17 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 monkeys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Chattering and chattering | the monkeys | tree rules |
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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