The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 68
An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
Who acts: Indian grazing ground, herds · What happens: be, scatter, disappear · To what, where: rocks
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 (Indian grazing ground, herds), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ground | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ground | amod |
| 3 | grazing | grazing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ground | compound |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rocks | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rocks | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 rocks | advmod |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scrub | cc |
| 9 | scrub | scrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rocks | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tussocks | cc |
| 11 | tussocks | tussock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rocks | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ravines | cc |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ravines | amod |
| 14 | ravines | ravine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rocks | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scatter | punct |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 scatter | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 herds | det |
| 19 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 scatter | nsubj |
| 20 | scatter | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rocks | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 disappear | cc |
| 22 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 scatter | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rocks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a Indian grazing ground | rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scatter | present | the herds | rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme among which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | disappear | present | the herds not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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