The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 54

“To begin a night’s work with that noise!

Who acts: night · What happens: begin, work · To what, where: work

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 (night), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct
2	To	to	PART	_	3 begin	mark
3	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 night	case
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begin	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 noise	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 noise	det
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begin	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	to-infinitive		a night's work				with that noise	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality with noise=Subeventuality
2	work in a quote		a night						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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