The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 84

Remember we’ve been fighting for our nurseries, and that’s a thing you never did.

Who acts: Remember, that, you · What happens: fight, be, not do · To what, where: thing

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 (Remember, that, you), 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	Remember	remember	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fighting	nsubj
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 fighting	nsubj
3	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fighting	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fighting	aux
5	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 nurseries	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nurseries	nmod:poss
8	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fighting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thing	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 thing	nsubj
12	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fighting	obl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 did	advmod
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fighting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fight	present · perfect · progressive	Remember		for our nurseries	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	that	a thing		tree rules
3	not do	past	you	a thing not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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