The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 12
Lead us again, O Man-cub, for we be sick of this lawlessness, and we would be the Free People once more.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: lead, be · To what, where: us, Free People
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 (you, we), 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 | Lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Lead | obj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Lead | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cub | punct |
| 5 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 8 cub | case |
| 6 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cub | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Man | punct |
| 8 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lead | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sick | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 sick | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sick | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sick | cop |
| 13 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Lead | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lawlessness | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 lawlessness | det |
| 16 | lawlessness | lawlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sick | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 People | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 People | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 People | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 People | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 People | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 People | det |
| 23 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 People | amod |
| 24 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Lead | obl |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 People | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lead | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | imperative | you not said here | us | again | of Man cub | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme of cub=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | infinitive | we | of this lawlessness; sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | would | we | the Free People | 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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