The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 133

The cub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves!”

Who acts: cub, teeth · What happens: be, come, tail · To what, where: mine, tailed thieves, end

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 (cub, teeth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cub	det
2	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mine	cop
4	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mine	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thieves	punct
17	O	o	INTJ	_	21 thieves	discourse
18	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tailed	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 bush	punct
20	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 thieves	amod
21	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 mine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the cub	mine		tree rules
2	come	future	my teeth	tailed thieves	in the end	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location
3	tail	participle				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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