The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 87
Most native hunters always singe a tiger’s whiskers to prevent his ghost from haunting them.
Who acts: Most native hunters, Khanhiwara · What happens: singe, prevent, haunt, ghost · To what, where: whiskers, ghost
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 (Most native hunters, Khanhiwara), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 hunters | amod |
| 2 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hunters | amod |
| 3 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 singe | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 singe | advmod |
| 5 | singe | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tiger | det |
| 7 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 tiger | case |
| 9 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 singe | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 prevent | mark |
| 11 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 singe | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ghost | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prevent | obj |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 haunting | mark |
| 15 | haunting | haunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 prevent | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 haunting | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 singe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | singe | present | Most native hunters | a tiger's whiskers | always property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient | |||
| 2 | prevent | to-infinitive | Most native hunters not said here | Khanhiwara's ghost | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ghost=Theme | ||||
| 3 | haunt | gerund | Most native hunters not said here | whiskers = whisker | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | ghost | Khanhiwara | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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