The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 130
They grow tired of the nuts they pick, and throw them down.
Who acts: Chattering · What happens: grow, pick, throw down · To what, where: nuts, Chattering
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grow | xcomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nuts | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nuts | det |
| 6 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tired | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pick | nsubj |
| 8 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nuts | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 throw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 throw | cc |
| 11 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grow | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 throw | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 throw | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Chattering | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick | present | Chattering | the nuts not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw down | infinitive | Chattering not said here | Chattering | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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