The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 125

Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!

Who acts: Sambhur, I, thou · What happens: get, kill, eat, starve, go, burn · To what, where: starved cattle, beast, world

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sambhur, I, thou), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 get	advmod
2	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 burned	advcl
3	hence	hence	ADV	_	2 get	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Sambhur	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 Sambhur	cc
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Sambhur	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sambhur	det
8	Sambhur	sambhur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 killed	nsubj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 killed	nsubj
11	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Sambhur	acl:relcl
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
14	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 killed	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 cattle	det
16	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cattle	amod
17	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eat	obj
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 killed	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 goest	punct
20	back	back	ADV	_	22 goest	advmod
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 goest	nsubj
22	goest	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 mother	case
24	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 goest	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 burned	punct
27	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 burned	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 jungle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 jungle	det
31	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beast	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lamer	punct
33	lamer	lamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beast	conj
34	than	than	SCONJ	_	37 camest	mark
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 camest	advmod
36	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 camest	nsubj
37	camest	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 burned	advcl
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 camest	obl
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	infinitive				now	by the Sambhur; hence property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	kill	past	the Sambhur					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	eat	present	I	no starved cattle				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient
4	starve	participle						tree rules
5	go	present	thou				to thy mother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
6	burn	past		beast of the jungle and lamer				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
7	come	past	thou		the world	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=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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