The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 75
What news of Shere Khan?”
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Shere | case |
| 4 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 news | nmod |
| 5 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Shere | flat |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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