The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 182
Mowgli was uneasy, because he had never been under a roof before.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: roof
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 (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 | 3 uneasy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uneasy | cop |
| 3 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 roof | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 roof | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 roof | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 roof | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 roof | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 roof | cop |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 roof | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 roof | det |
| 12 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uneasy | conj |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 roof | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uneasy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mowgli | uneasy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past · perfect | Mowgli | a roof | before property | 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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