The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 53
He may be dead by now.”
Who acts: jungle · What happens: be
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 (jungle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dead | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dead | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 now | case |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dead | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | jungle | dead property | 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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