The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 154
You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old, Or your head will be sunk by your heels; And summer gales and Killer Whales Are bad for baby seals.
Who acts: You, heels, summer gales · What happens: not swim, be, sink · To what, where: old, head
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, heels, summer gales), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 swim | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 swim | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 swim | advmod |
| 4 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 ’re | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 ’re | nsubj |
| 7 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swim | advcl |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 weeks | nummod |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 old | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ’re | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sunk | punct |
| 12 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sunk | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sunk | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sunk | aux:pass |
| 17 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swim | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 heels | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heels | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sunk | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 bad | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bad | cc |
| 23 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gales | compound |
| 24 | gales | gale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bad | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Whales | cc |
| 26 | Killer | killer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Whales | compound |
| 27 | Whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gales | conj |
| 28 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 bad | cop |
| 29 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 swim | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 seals | case |
| 31 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seals | compound |
| 32 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bad | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not swim | must | You | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | does | present | you | old | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sink | future · passive | your heels | your head | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | summer gales and Killer Whales | for baby seals; bad property | 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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