The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 73

I must speak to the priest about this.”

Who acts: I · What happens: speak · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 speak	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	aux
3	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 priest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speak	obl
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 priest	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 speak	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	must	I					to the priest about this	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to priest=Co-Agent

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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