The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 35
It was a long, long circle, for they did not wish to get too near the ravine and give Shere Khan warning.
Who acts: buffaloes · What happens: be, not wish, get, give · To what, where: long long circle, ravine, Shere warning
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 (buffaloes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 circle | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 circle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 circle | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 circle | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 circle | amod |
| 7 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 wish | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wish | advmod |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 circle | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | xcomp |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 ravine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ravine | det |
| 19 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 give | cc |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 get | conj |
| 22 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 warning | compound |
| 23 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Shere | flat |
| 24 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 circle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a long long circle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not wish | past · do-support | buffaloes = buffalo | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | buffaloes = buffalo not said here | the ravine | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | buffaloes = buffalo not said here | Shere warning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=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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