The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 189
In the Cold Lairs the Monkey-People were not thinking of Mowgli’s friends at all.
Who acts: Monkey People · What happens: not think · To what, where: Cold Lairs
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 (Monkey People), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Lairs | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lairs | det |
| 3 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lairs | amod |
| 4 | Lairs | lair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thinking | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 People | det |
| 6 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 People | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Monkey | punct |
| 8 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thinking | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thinking | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 thinking | advmod |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 friends | case |
| 13 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Mowgli | case |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thinking | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 friends | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past · progressive | the Monkey People | the Cold Lairs | of Mowgli's friends at all | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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