The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 105
“He killed at dawn,--a pig,--and he has drunk too.
Who acts: Shere · What happens: kill, drink
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 dawn | case |
| 5 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pig | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 pig | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pig | det |
| 9 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawn | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 drunk | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drunk | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drunk | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 drunk | aux |
| 15 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 killed | conj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 drunk | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | past | Shere | dawn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | present · perfect | Shere | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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