The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 145
O thou Mowgli--for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee--the time will come when thou wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee.”
Who acts: I, time, thou, Mowgli · What happens: call, come, hunt · To what, where: Mowgli, Shere, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, time, thou, Mowgli), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Mowgli | discourse |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 Mowgli | nsubj |
| 3 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 call | obl |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mowgli | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Mowgli | case |
| 6 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mowgli | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Frog | det |
| 8 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mowgli | appos |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 call | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 call | aux |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 call | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 call | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 hunt | advmod |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 hunt | nsubj |
| 20 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 21 hunt | aux |
| 21 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 22 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hunt | obj |
| 23 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Shere | flat |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 hunted | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hunted | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hunted | aux |
| 27 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 hunt | advcl |
| 28 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 hunted | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | future | I | Mowgli and Mowgli | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come | future | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hunt | future | thou | Shere | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shere=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hunt | present · perfect | Mowgli | thee | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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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