The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 151
It was near Rann’s bedtime, but he had ranged all over the jungle looking for the Bear and had missed him in the thick foliage.
Who acts: voice, Rann, jungle · What happens: be, range, look, miss · To what, where: bedtime, jungle, Rann, thick foliage
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 (voice, Rann, jungle), 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 | 6 bedtime | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bedtime | cop |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 bedtime | case |
| 4 | Rann | Rann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bedtime | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Rann | case |
| 6 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ranged | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 ranged | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ranged | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ranged | aux |
| 11 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 bedtime | parataxis |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 jungle | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 jungle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jungle | det |
| 15 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ranged | obj |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 jungle | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Bear | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bear | det |
| 19 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 missed | cc |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 missed | aux |
| 22 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 ranged | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 missed | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 foliage | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 foliage | det |
| 26 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 foliage | amod |
| 27 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 missed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bedtime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | voice | Rann's bedtime | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | range | past · perfect | Rann | the jungle | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jungle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the jungle not said here | for the Bear | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bear=Theme | ||||
| 4 | miss | past · perfect | Rann not said here | Rann | the thick foliage | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 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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