The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 92
If Shere Khan had made a false step with his lame paw up in the jungles by the Waingunga, Mowgli would have heard him in those long, still mornings.
Who acts: Shere · What happens: make up, hear · To what, where: false step, Shere, jungles
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 (Shere), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 made | mark |
| 2 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 3 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shere | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 step | det |
| 7 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 step | amod |
| 8 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 paw | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 paw | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 paw | amod |
| 12 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 step | nmod |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 made | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 jungles | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jungles | det |
| 16 | jungles | jungle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 heard | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Waingunga | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Waingunga | det |
| 19 | Waingunga | Waingunga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 jungles | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Mowgli | punct |
| 21 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Waingunga | conj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 heard | aux |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 made | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 those | case |
| 27 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 heard | obl |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 those | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mornings | punct |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 mornings | advmod |
| 31 | mornings | morning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 heard | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · perfect | Shere | a false step | with Shere's lame paw | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Pivot | |||
| 2 | hear | would · perfect | Shere not said here | Shere | the jungles by the Waingunga and Mowgli | morning | in those | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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