The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 56
But (and it is a great evil) he is in the power of the Bandar-log, and they, because they live in trees, have no fear of any of our people.”
Who acts: fear, great evil, eyes · What happens: be, live, have · To what, where: great evil, power, trees, fear
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 (fear, great evil, eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 power | cc |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 evil | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 evil | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 evil | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 evil | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 evil | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 evil | amod |
| 8 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 power | nsubj |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 evil | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 power | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 power | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 power | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 power | det |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 log | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 log | det |
| 17 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 log | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bandar | punct |
| 19 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 power | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 live | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 live | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 live | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 live | nsubj |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 power | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 live | conj |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 fear | det |
| 32 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 any | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 fear | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 people | case |
| 36 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 people | nmod:poss |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 any | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 power | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fear | a great evil | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a great evil | the power | of the Bandar log | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | present | eyes = eye | trees | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | eyes = eye not said here | no fear of any | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
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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