The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 47
Cattle thief, it is time to come to the Council Rock!
Who acts: Cattle thief · What happens: be, come · To what, where: time, Council Rock
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 (Cattle thief), 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 | Cattle | cattle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thief | amod |
| 2 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thief | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 time | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Rock | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rock | det |
| 11 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rock | compound |
| 12 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cattle thief | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | the Council Rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location |
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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