The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 43

Most of the tales were about animals, for the jungle was always at their door.

Who acts: Most, jungle · What happens: be · To what, where: door

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 (Most, jungle), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 animals	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 tales	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tales	det
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Most	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 animals	cop
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 animals	case
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 door	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 door	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jungle	det
11	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 door	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 door	cop
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 door	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 door	nmod:poss
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animals	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 animals	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Most of the tales					about animals	tree rules
2	is	past	the jungle			jungle's door		always 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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