The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 21

“Now,” said Kotick, “I am going back to Novastoshnah, and if I am driven to the killing-pens with the holluschickie I shall not care.”

Who acts: Kotick · What happens: say, go back, drive, not care · To what, where: Novastoshnah, Kotick, killing pens, holluschickie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kotick), 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 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 going	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 going	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Novastoshnah	case
14	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 going	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 driven	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 driven	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 driven	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 driven	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 driven	aux:pass
20	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 pens	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pens	det
23	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pens	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 killing	punct
25	pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 driven	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 holluschickie	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 holluschickie	det
28	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pens	nmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 care	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 care	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 care	advmod
32	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 holluschickie	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kotick				now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go back in a quote	present · progressive	Kotick		Novastoshnah			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to novastoshnah=Result
3	drive a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		Kotick		the killing pens with the holluschickie		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to pen=Trajectory
4	not care in a quote	shall	Kotick	the holluschickie not said here				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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