The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 71
Don’t look behind you,” 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Kerick | Kerick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | infinitive · do-support | behind you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | 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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