The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 2
From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
Who acts: you, roofless houses, that, four roads, public, wild figs · What happens: see, make up, look, fill, be, meet · To what, where: rows, palace, city, empty honeycombs, idol, square
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: who acts (you, roofless houses, that, four roads), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 palace | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rows | det |
| 8 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rows | cc |
| 10 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rows | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 houses | case |
| 12 | roofless | roofless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 houses | amod |
| 13 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rows | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 houses | acl:relcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 made | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 made | advcl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 honeycombs | case |
| 21 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 honeycombs | amod |
| 22 | honeycombs | honeycomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 looking | obl |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 honeycombs | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 blackness | case |
| 25 | blackness | blackness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 block | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 block | det |
| 28 | shapeless | shapeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 block | amod |
| 29 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 stone | case |
| 31 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 block | nmod |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 idol | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 idol | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 idol | cop |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 idol | det |
| 36 | idol | idol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 block | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 square | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 square | det |
| 39 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 idol | nmod |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 met | advmod |
| 41 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 roads | nummod |
| 42 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 met | nsubj |
| 43 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 square | acl:relcl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 pits | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 pits | det |
| 46 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 block | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 dimples | cc |
| 48 | dimples | dimple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 pits | conj |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 corners | case |
| 50 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 corners | compound |
| 51 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 pits | nmod |
| 52 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 55 wells | advmod |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 public | det |
| 54 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 wells | nsubj |
| 55 | wells | well | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 corners | acl:relcl |
| 56 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 57 stood | advmod |
| 57 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 wells | ccomp |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 domes | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 domes | cc |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 domes | det |
| 61 | shattered | shattered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 domes | amod |
| 62 | domes | dome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 block | conj |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 temples | case |
| 64 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 domes | nmod |
| 65 | with | with | ADP | _ | 67 figs | case |
| 66 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 figs | amod |
| 67 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 temples | nmod |
| 68 | sprouting | sprout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 67 figs | acl |
| 69 | on | on | ADP | _ | 71 sides | case |
| 70 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 71 sides | nmod:poss |
| 71 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 68 sprouting | obl |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | you | the rows and rows of roofless houses | the palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer row=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make up | past | roofless houses | the city | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | roofless houses not said here | like empty honeycombs | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle | empty honeycombs not said here | with blackness | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blackness=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | is a | past · perfect | that | a idol | the square | tree rules | |||
| 6 | meet | participle | four roads | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | well | present | the public | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | stand | past | the public not said here | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | sprout | gerund | wild figs not said here | roads's sides | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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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