The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 85
The cattle move and crunch, and lie down, and move on again, and they do not even low.
Who acts: cattle · What happens: move, crunch, lie down, move on
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 (cattle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cattle | det |
| 2 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 move | nsubj |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crunch | cc |
| 5 | crunch | crunch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 move | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lie | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lie | cc |
| 8 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 move | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 lie | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 move | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 move | cc |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 move | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 move | compound:prt |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 move | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 low | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 low | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 low | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 low | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 low | advmod |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 low | advmod |
| 21 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 move | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the cattle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | crunch | present | the cattle not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie down | infinitive | the cattle not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | move on | infinitive | the cattle not said here | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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