The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 81
When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the _dhâk_ tree in the center of the plain.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: be · To what, where: ravine
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 (Mowgli), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 wait | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | cop |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ravine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ravine | det |
| 10 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 dhâk | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dhâk | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 dhâk | punct |
| 14 | dhâk | dhâk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ravine | nmod |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 tree | punct |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 center | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 center | det |
| 19 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 plain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plain | det |
| 22 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 center | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mowgli | the ravine by the dhâk | for me; in the center of the plain; tree obl; wait property | tree rules |
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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