The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 193
You could still trace the stone causeways that led up to the ruined gates where the last splinters of wood hung to the worn, rusted hinges.
Who acts: You, stone, that, last splinters · What happens: trace, causeway, lead up, ruin, hang, rust · To what, where: ruined gates, wood, hinges
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 (You, stone, that, last splinters), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 trace | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 trace | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 trace | advmod |
| 4 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 causeways | nsubj |
| 7 | causeways | causeway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trace | parataxis |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 causeways | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 led | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 gates | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gates | det |
| 13 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gates | amod |
| 14 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 led | obj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 rusted | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 splinters | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 splinters | amod |
| 18 | splinters | splinter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rusted | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 splinters | nmod |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 wood | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 worn | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 worn | det |
| 24 | worn | worn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 splinters | punct |
| 26 | rusted | rust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gates | advcl |
| 27 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rusted | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | could | You | still | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | causeway | present | the stone | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lead up | past | that | the ruined gates | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | hang | participle | wood not said here | to the worn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | rust | past | the last splinters of wood | hinges | 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.
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