The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 102
It’s a six-mile swim, and if I were you I should haul out and take a nap first, little one.”
Who acts: fur, I, you · What happens: be, haul out, take · To what, where: mile swim, you, nap
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fur, I, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 swim | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 swim | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 swim | det |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 mile | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 six | punct |
| 6 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swim | compound |
| 7 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 haul | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 haul | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 you | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 you | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 you | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 haul | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 haul | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 haul | aux |
| 16 | haul | haul | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 swim | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 haul | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 haul | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 nap | det |
| 21 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 take | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 one | amod |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swim | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swim | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fur | a mile swim and little one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | haul out | should | you | out property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | you not said here | a nap | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=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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