The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 58

“Don’t look at him,” said Kerick.

Who acts: Kerick · What happens: not look, say · 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 (Kerick), 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	_	4 look	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 look	advmod
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Kerick	Kerick	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look in a quote	infinitive · do-support						at Patalamon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Kerick						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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