The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 103
He is lying up now, in the big dry ravine of the Waingunga.”
Who acts: Shere · What happens: lie up
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | aux |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lying | compound:prt |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lying | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ravine | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ravine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ravine | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ravine | amod |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ravine | amod |
| 11 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lying | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Waingunga | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Waingunga | det |
| 14 | Waingunga | Waingunga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ravine | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ravine | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie up | present · progressive | Shere | now | vn assuming_position-50 «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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