The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 17

When you’re south of the Sticky Water [he meant the Equator] and your tail tingles, that means there’s a gale in front of you and you must head north.

Who acts: you, leader, tail, that · What happens: be, mean, tingle, head · To what, where: Equator

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 (you, leader, tail, that), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 ’re	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ’re	nsubj
3	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	south	south	ADV	_	3 ’re	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Water	det
7	Sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Water	amod
8	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ’re	obl
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 meant	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meant	nsubj
11	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ’re	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Equator	det
13	Equator	Equator	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 meant	obj
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 meant	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tingles	cc
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tingles	nsubj
18	tingles	tingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 meant	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 means	nsubj
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tingles	advcl:relcl
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 ’s	expl
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 means	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 gale	det
25	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 front	case
27	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 front	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 head	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 head	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 head	aux
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	conj
34	north	north	ADV	_	33 head	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ’re	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	does	present	you		of the Sticky Water; south property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	past	leader	the Equator		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equator=Topic
3	tingle	present	your tail			vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	mean	present	that			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	head	must	you		north property	tree rules

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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