The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 157

They may stay there for a night, or ten nights, or an hour.

Who acts: Lairs · What happens: stay

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 (Lairs), 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	3 stay	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stay	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nights	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nights	cc
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 nights	nummod
11	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hour	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 hour	cc
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hour	det
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	may	Lairs = lair			there	hour; night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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