The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 128
“If he is living still, he’ll be able to tell you.”
Who acts: Vitch · What happens: live, be, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Vitch), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 living | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 living | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 living | aux |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 living | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 living | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present · progressive | Vitch | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | future | Vitch | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Vitch not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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