The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 63
So long as the boys keep with the herds they are safe, for not even the tiger will charge a mob of cattle.
Who acts: boys, cattle, tiger · What happens: keep, be, charge · To what, where: herds, mob
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 (boys, cattle, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 long | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 herds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 herds | det |
| 9 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keep | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 safe | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 safe | cop |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 herds | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 charge | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 charge | mark |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 tiger | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 tiger | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tiger | det |
| 18 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 charge | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 charge | aux |
| 20 | charge | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 safe | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mob | det |
| 22 | mob | mob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 charge | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cattle | case |
| 24 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 mob | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the boys | with the herds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | cattle | the herds not said here | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | charge | future | the tiger | a mob of cattle | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mob=Theme |
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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