The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 44
The deer and the wild pig grubbed up their crops, and now and again the tiger carried off a man at twilight, within sight of the village gates.
Who acts: deer, tiger · What happens: grub up, carry off, sight · To what, where: crops, man, twilight, village gates
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 (deer, tiger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 deer | det |
| 2 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grubbed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pig | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pig | det |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pig | amod |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 deer | conj |
| 7 | grubbed | grub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grubbed | compound:prt |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 crops | nmod:poss |
| 10 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grubbed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 carried | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 carried | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 again | cc |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 now | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tiger | det |
| 17 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grubbed | parataxis |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 carried | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 twilight | case |
| 23 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sight | punct |
| 25 | within | within | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 gates | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gates | det |
| 29 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gates | compound |
| 30 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sight | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grub up | participle | the deer and the wild pig | deer's crops | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry off | past | the tiger | a man | twilight | now | within sight of the village gates | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |
| 3 | sight | the village gates | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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