The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 20
This is wilder work than driving black-buck.
Who acts: This, wilder work · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: wilder work, black buck
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, wilder work), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 work | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | cop |
| 3 | wilder | wild | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 work | amod |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 driving | mark |
| 6 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 work | acl |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 buck | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 black | punct |
| 9 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 driving | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | wilder work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund | wilder work not said here | black buck | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme buck=Trajectory |
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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