The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 23
Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?”
What happens: be, pick, choose · To what, where: Gidur log
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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 log | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 log | cop |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 log | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 log | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 log | det |
| 6 | Gidur | Gidur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 log | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Gidur | punct |
| 8 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 11 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 people | compound |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 log | appos |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pick | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pick | mark |
| 16 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 log | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 choose | cc |
| 18 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pick | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 log | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 log | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Gidur log | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pick | to-infinitive | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | choose | infinitive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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