The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 65
Lend me thy gay striped coat that I may go to the Council Rock.
Who acts: you, gay striped coat · What happens: lend, go · To what, where: gay striped coat, me, Council Rock
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, gay striped coat), 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 | 6 coat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coat | compound |
| 5 | striped | striped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coat | amod |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lend | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 go | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 coat | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Rock | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rock | det |
| 13 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rock | compound |
| 14 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 gay striped coat | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient coat=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | may | thy gay striped coat | the Council Rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location |
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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