The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 61

All the same, I wish they’d hurry.”

Who acts: I, crabs · What happens: wish, hurry · 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, crabs), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 same	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 same	parataxis
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurry	nsubj
8	’d	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurry	aux
9	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wish	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 same	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hurry	would	crabs = crab						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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