The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 29

At the gates in the twilight he would kill Mowgli, the Frog!

Who acts: Shere · What happens: kill · To what, where: Mowgli, gates

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	At	at	ADP	_	3 gates	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gates	det
3	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kill	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 twilight	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 twilight	det
6	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kill	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kill	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kill	aux
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kill	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Frog	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Frog	det
13	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mowgli	nmod:unmarked
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would	Shere	Mowgli the Frog		the gates		in the twilight	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mowgli=Theme

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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