The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 133
Brother, the watch was long and cold.
Who acts: Brother · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother), 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 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 long | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brother | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 watch | det |
| 4 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 long | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cold | cc |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 long | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Brother | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Brother not said here | tree rules |
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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