The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 114
Can we get behind his track so that they may smell it?”
Who acts: we, tracks · What happens: get, smell · To what, where: track, language
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 (we, tracks), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 track | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 track | nmod:poss |
| 6 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 smell | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 so | fixed |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 smell | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 smell | aux |
| 11 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 smell | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | we | Mowgli's track | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | smell | may | tracks = track | language | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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