The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 37
That was very shocking, too, for the potter is a low-caste man, and his donkey is worse.
Who acts: That, potter, donkey · What happens: be
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 (That, potter, donkey), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 shocking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shocking | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 shocking | advmod |
| 4 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 shocking | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 potter | det |
| 10 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 caste | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 low | punct |
| 15 | caste | caste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | compound |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shocking | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worse | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 worse | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 donkey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 worse | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 worse | cop |
| 22 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 shocking | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shocking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | That | shocking property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the potter | for a caste man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | man's donkey | bad property | tree rules |
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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