The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 47
They will not throw themselves upon my back in their hundreds, but--”
Who acts: monkeys · What happens: not throw · To what, where: monkeys, hundreds
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 throw | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 throw | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 throw | advmod |
| 4 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 throw | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hundreds | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hundreds | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 throw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 but | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 throw | cc |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 but | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not throw | future | monkeys = monkey | monkeys = monkey | monkeys's hundreds | upon my back | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme upon back=Destination |
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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