The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 9
Mowgli, who had been trained under the Law of the Jungle, did not like or understand this kind of life.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: train, not like, understand · To what, where: Mowgli, Law, kind
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 (Mowgli), 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 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 like | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trained | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trained | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 trained | aux:pass |
| 6 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Mowgli | acl:relcl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 Law | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Law | det |
| 9 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 trained | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Jungle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Jungle | det |
| 12 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Law | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mowgli | punct |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 like | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 like | advmod |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 understand | cc |
| 18 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 like | conj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 kind | det |
| 20 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 understand | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kind | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | past · perfect · passive | Mowgli | the Law of the Jungle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | Mowgli | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | understand | infinitive | Mowgli not said here | this kind of life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus |
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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