The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 4
And yet they never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use them.
Who acts: monkeys · What happens: not know, make, use · To what, where: buildings, monkeys
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 knew | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 knew | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 knew | advmod |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 made | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 buildings | det |
| 8 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 knew | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 made | obl |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 use | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 use | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 use | mark |
| 15 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 use | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | monkeys = monkey | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the buildings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | monkeys = monkey | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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