The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 28

Shere Khan said he would kill—would kill!

Who acts: Shere · What happens: say, kill · 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 (Shere), 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	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Shere	flat
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kill	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	aux
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 kill	punct
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kill	aux
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kill	conj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Shere	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill	would	Shere	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	kill	would	Shere not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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