The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 84
Herding in India is one of the laziest things in the world.
Who acts: Herding · What happens: herd, be · To what, where: India, one
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 (Herding), 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 | Herding | herd | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 one | csubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 India | case |
| 3 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Herding | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 things | det |
| 8 | laziest | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 things | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | herd | gerund | India | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Herding | one | of the laziest things in the world | 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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