The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 133
“Why can’t you be sensible and settle your places quietly?
Who acts: you · What happens: be, settle · To what, where: places
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), 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 | _ | 7 sensible | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 ca | advmod |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sensible | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ca | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 sensible | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sensible | cop |
| 7 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 settle | cc |
| 9 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sensible | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 places | nmod:poss |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 settle | obj |
| 12 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 9 settle | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sensible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can | you | sensible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | settle in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your places | quietly property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme place=Location |
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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