The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 39
No one was more pleased than Mowgli; and that night, because he had been appointed a servant of the village, as it were, he went off to a circle that met every evening on a masonry platform under a great fig-tree.
Who acts: one, servant, circle · What happens: be, appoint, meet · To what, where: Mowgli, masonry platform
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 (one, servant, circle), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 Mowgli | case |
| 7 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 night | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 night | cc |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appointed | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 appointed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 appointed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 appointed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 appointed | aux:pass |
| 17 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pleased | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 servant | det |
| 19 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appointed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 village | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 village | det |
| 22 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 servant | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 went | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 went | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 went | cop |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 appointed | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 went | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 circle | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 circle | det |
| 33 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 met | nsubj |
| 35 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 circle | acl:relcl |
| 36 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 evening | det |
| 37 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 met | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 platform | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 platform | det |
| 40 | masonry | masonry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 platform | compound |
| 41 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 met | obl |
| 42 | under | under | ADP | _ | 47 tree | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 tree | det |
| 44 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 tree | amod |
| 45 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tree | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 fig | punct |
| 47 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 met | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no one | than Mowgli; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appoint | past · perfect · passive | Mowgli | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme servant=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | past | servant | to a circle; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | a circle | a masonry platform | evening | under a great fig tree | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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