The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 29
For three months after that night Mowgli hardly ever left the village gate, he was so busy learning the ways and customs of men.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: leave, be, learn · To what, where: village gate, ways
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 (Mowgli), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 months | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 left | obl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 months | nmod |
| 7 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 night | appos |
| 8 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 10 left | advmod |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 left | advmod |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gate | compound |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 busy | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 busy | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 busy | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 busy | advmod |
| 18 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 left | conj |
| 19 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 busy | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ways | det |
| 21 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 learning | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 customs | cc |
| 23 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ways | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 customs | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the village gate | ever; month | hardly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Mowgli | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | learn | gerund | Mowgli not said here | the ways and customs of men | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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