The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 16
Twenty or thirty monkeys bounded away to bring him nuts and wild pawpaws.
What happens: bound away, bring · To what, where: Twenty monkeys, nuts, Mowgli
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 monkeys | nummod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 thirty | cc |
| 3 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Twenty | conj |
| 4 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 monkeys | acl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 bounded | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bounded | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pawpaws | cc |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pawpaws | amod |
| 13 | pawpaws | pawpaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 nuts | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 monkeys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound away | participle | Twenty monkeys not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | nuts and wild pawpaws | Mowgli | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination nut=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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