The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 153
“Only the gray ape would behave as they do.”
Who acts: gray ape, men · What happens: behave, do
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 (gray ape, men), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 behave | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 ape | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ape | det |
| 4 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ape | amod |
| 5 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 behave | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 behave | aux |
| 7 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 behave | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 behave | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 behave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behave in a quote | would | the gray ape | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | men = man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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