The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 76
“He has come back to this country, and has waited here a long time for thee.
Who acts: news · What happens: come back, wait
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 (news), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waited | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 waited | cc |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 waited | aux |
| 12 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 come | conj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 waited | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 thee | case |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 waited | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back in a quote | present · perfect | news | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | present · perfect | news not said here | here | time | for thee | vn exist-47.1 «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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