The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 40
It was the village club, and the head-man and the watchman and the barber, who knew all the gossip of the village, and old Buldeo, the village hunter, who had a Tower musket, met and smoked.
Who acts: servant, barber, village hunter, village · What happens: be, know, have, meet, smoke, gossip · To what, where: village club, gossip, Tower musket
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 (servant, barber, village hunter, village), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 club | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 club | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 club | det |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 club | compound |
| 5 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 man | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 head | punct |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 club | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watchman | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 watchman | det |
| 14 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 barber | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 barber | det |
| 17 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knew | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 barber | acl:relcl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 gossip | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gossip | det |
| 23 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knew | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 village | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 village | det |
| 26 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gossip | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Buldeo | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Buldeo | cc |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Buldeo | amod |
| 30 | Buldeo | Buldeo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 club | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hunter | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hunter | det |
| 33 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hunter | compound |
| 34 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Buldeo | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 hunter | acl:relcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 musket | det |
| 39 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 musket | compound |
| 40 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 had | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 met | punct |
| 42 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 musket | acl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 smoked | cc |
| 44 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 met | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 club | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | servant | the village club | old Buldeo obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | the barber | all gossip of the village | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer gossip=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the village hunter | a Tower musket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musket=Patient | ||||
| 4 | meet | participle | a Tower musket not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | smoke | participle | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | gossip | the village | nom gossip «communication intransitive»: of=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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