The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 15
Shere Khan has gone away to hunt far off till his coat grows again, for he is badly singed.
Who acts: Shere, coat · What happens: go away, hunt, grow, singe · To what, where: Shere
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, coat), 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 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shere | flat |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hunt | mark |
| 7 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gone | advcl |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 off | advmod |
| 9 | off | off | ADV | _ | 7 hunt | advmod |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 grows | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 coat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grows | nsubj |
| 13 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunt | advcl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 grows | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 singed | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 singed | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 singed | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 singed | aux:pass |
| 19 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 singed | advmod |
| 20 | singed | singe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gone | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | present · perfect | Shere | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | Shere not said here | off property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | Shere's coat | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | singe | present · passive | Shere | badly property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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