The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 165
But, as Matkah told Kotick, “So long as you don’t lie in muddy water and get mange, or rub the hard sand into a cut or scratch, and so long as you never go swimming when there is a heavy sea, nothing will hurt you here.”
Who acts: Matkah, Kotick, heavy sea, nothing · What happens: tell, not lie, get, rub, not go, swim · To what, where: Kotick, muddy water, mange, hard sand, cut · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Matkah, Kotick, heavy sea, nothing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 hurt | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 told | mark |
| 4 | Matkah | Matkah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 hurt | advcl |
| 6 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 9 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 told | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 lie | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 lie | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lie | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 lie | advmod |
| 15 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 long | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lie | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lie | conj |
| 21 | mange | mange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rub | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 rub | cc |
| 24 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lie | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sand | det |
| 26 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sand | amod |
| 27 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rub | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 cut | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cut | det |
| 30 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rub | obl |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 scratch | cc |
| 32 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cut | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 long | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 long | cc |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 long | advmod |
| 36 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 told | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 go | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 go | nsubj |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 go | advmod |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 long | advcl |
| 41 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 go | xcomp |
| 42 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 is | advmod |
| 43 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 44 is | expl |
| 44 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 go | advcl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 sea | det |
| 46 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 sea | amod |
| 47 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 is | nsubj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 49 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 51 hurt | nsubj |
| 50 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 hurt | aux |
| 51 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 52 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 hurt | obj |
| 53 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 hurt | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 hurt | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Matkah | Kotick | long property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kotick=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not lie in a quote | present · do-support | Kotick | muddy water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | Kotick not said here | mange | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mange=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | rub in a quote | infinitive | Kotick not said here | the hard sand | a cut or scratch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sand=Theme into cut=Destination | |||
| 5 | not go in a quote | present | Kotick | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | swim in a quote | gerund | Kotick not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | be in a quote | present | a heavy sea | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hurt in a quote | future | nothing | Kotick | here | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
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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