The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 102

The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas!

Who acts: storm, shark · What happens: not wake, overtake, swing · To what, where: thee

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, shark), 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 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wake	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wake	advmod
5	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 wake	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 overtake	punct
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 overtake	cc
9	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 overtake	nsubj
10	overtake	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	parataxis
11	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 overtake	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Asleep	punct
13	Asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 overtake	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 arms	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 arms	det
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Asleep	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	22 seas	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 seas	det
19	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 swinging	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 slow	punct
21	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 seas	amod
22	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 arms	nmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 wake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not wake	shall	the storm	thee	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
2	overtake	present	shark	thee	tree rules
3	swing	gerund			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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