The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 16
When he returns he swears that he will lay thy bones in the Waingunga.”
Who acts: Shere · What happens: return, swear, lay · To what, where: bones, Waingunga
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 returns | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returns | nsubj |
| 3 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swears | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swears | nsubj |
| 5 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 lay | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | aux |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swears | ccomp |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 bones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Waingunga | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Waingunga | det |
| 14 | Waingunga | Waingunga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swears | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 swears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | Shere | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swear | present | Shere | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | future | Shere | thy bones | the Waingunga | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in waingunga=Destination |
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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