The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 49

I see you bow gracefully, but I should like to know your names.”

Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: see, bow, like, know, name · To what, where: names · 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 (I, you, your), 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	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 bow	nsubj
4	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
5	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	4 bow	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 like	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 like	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 like	aux
10	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 know	mark
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 like	xcomp
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 names	nmod:poss
14	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 know	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	bow	present	you		gracefully property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	your names		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
5	name		your			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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