The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 64
Lend me thy coat, Shere Khan.
Who acts: you · What happens: lend · To what, where: coat, me
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), 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 | Lend | lend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Lend | iobj |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 coat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lend | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shere | punct |
| 6 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 coat | appos |
| 7 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Shere | flat |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | imperative | you not said here | thy coat | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient coat=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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