The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 131
They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two.
Who acts: Chattering · What happens: carry, mean, do, snap · To what, where: branch, great things, thing
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 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 branch | det |
| 4 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obj |
| 5 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 7 day | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 meaning | punct |
| 9 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 carry | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 meaning | xcomp |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 snap | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 snap | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 snap | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 snap | nsubj |
| 20 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carry | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 snap | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 two | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 snap | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Chattering | a branch | day | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | |||
| 2 | mean | gerund | Chattering not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chattering not said here | great things | with thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | snap | present | Chattering | thing | then | in two | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in two=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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