The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 6
“They are trying to join again.”
Who acts: orders · What happens: try, join
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 (orders), 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 | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trying | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trying | aux |
| 4 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 join | mark |
| 6 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trying | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 join | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | present · progressive | orders = order | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | join not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | orders = order not said here | again | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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