The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 27
Let the jungle listen to the things I have done.
Who acts: you, jungle, I · What happens: let, listen, do · To what, where: jungle, things
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, jungle, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jungle | det |
| 3 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listen | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the jungle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | infinitive | the jungle not said here | to the things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | I | the things not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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