The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 18

Always pecking at new things are the Bandar-log.

Who acts: new things · What happens: peck, be · To what, where: Bandar log

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 (new things), 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	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 pecking	advmod
2	pecking	peck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	10 log	case
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 log	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 log	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 log	det
8	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 log	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Bandar	punct
10	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pecking	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pecking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	gerund						always property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	new things			the Bandar log			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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/18/