The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 24
I am old, and I shall never live to see that day, but others will.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not live, see
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 (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 old | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | cop |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 live | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 live | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 live | advmod |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 old | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 live | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 will | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 will | cc |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 will | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | aux |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not live | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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