The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 158
He is but a wolf-child run away from the jungle.”
Who acts: ape, wolf child · What happens: be, run away · To what, where: jungle
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 (ape, wolf child), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 is | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 run | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 child | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wolf | punct |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | nsubj |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 jungle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jungle | det |
| 12 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | ape | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run away | present | a wolf child | the jungle | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from jungle=Trajectory |
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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