The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 102
Shere Khan’s plan is to wait for thee at the village gate this evening--for thee and for no one else.
Who acts: plan, Shere · What happens: be, plan · To what, where: village gate
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, Shere), 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 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plan | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shere | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Shere | case |
| 4 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wait | mark |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 thee | case |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 wait | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gate | compound |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 thee | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 thee | case |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 wait | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 one | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thee | conj |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 one | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Shere's plan | the village gate | evening | for thee; wait property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | plan | Shere | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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