The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 150
The punishment is death where the murderer can be found; and if you think for a minute you will see that this must be so.
Who acts: punishment, you, this · What happens: be, find, think, see · To what, where: death, murderer
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 (punishment, you, this), 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 punishment | det |
| 2 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 death | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 death | cop |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 found | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 murderer | det |
| 7 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 death | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 see | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 think | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 minute | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 minute | det |
| 18 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 think | obl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 death | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | mark |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 so | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 so | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 so | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 see | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 death | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the punishment | death | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | can · passive | the murderer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present | you | minute | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | must | this | so property | tree rules |
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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