The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 191
Mowgli had never seen an Indian city before, and though this was almost a heap of ruins it seemed very wonderful and splendid.
Who acts: Mowgli, this, heap · What happens: not see, be, seem · To what, where: Indian city, heap
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 (Mowgli, this, heap), 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 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 city | amod |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 seen | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seemed | cc |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 heap | mark |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 heap | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heap | cop |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 heap | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 heap | det |
| 16 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ruins | case |
| 18 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heap | nmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | parataxis |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 wonderful | advmod |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 splendid | cc |
| 24 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wonderful | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | Mowgli | a Indian city | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this | a heap | of ruins; almost property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seem | past | a heap | wonderful property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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