The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 171
So he looked up at the sky for a minute and said solemnly: “What the jungle has taken the jungle has restored.
Who acts: priest · What happens: look up, say, take, restore · To what, where: jungle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (priest), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minute | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minute | det |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 13 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 taken | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 jungle | det |
| 18 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 jungle | det |
| 22 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 restored | aux |
| 24 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 taken | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | priest | minute | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | priest not said here | solemnly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the jungle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme what=Destination | |||||
| 4 | restore in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the jungle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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