The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 3
The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest.
Who acts: monkeys · What happens: call, pretend, despise, live · To what, where: place, Jungle People, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (monkeys), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkeys | det |
| 2 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pretended | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 monkeys | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 city | nmod:poss |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretended | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pretended | cc |
| 10 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 despise | mark |
| 12 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pretended | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 People | det |
| 14 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 People | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Jungle | punct |
| 16 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 despise | obj |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 lived | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pretended | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the monkeys not said here | the place | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | the monkeys | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | despise | to-infinitive | the monkeys not said here | the Jungle People | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | live | past | monkeys = monkey | the forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=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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