The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 9
“This is a poor reward for following thee twenty miles.
Who acts: This, poor reward · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: poor reward, thee
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 (This, poor reward), 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 | _ | 6 reward | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 reward | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reward | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reward | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reward | amod |
| 6 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 following | mark |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 reward | acl |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 following | obj |
| 10 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 miles | nummod |
| 11 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 following | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a poor reward | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow in a quote | gerund | a poor reward not said here | thee | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent thou=Theme mile=Attribute |
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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