The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 99
I’ve found you the island where you’ll be safe, but unless your heads are dragged off your silly necks you won’t believe.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: find, be, drag off, not believe · To what, where: you, silly necks
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), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 safe | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 safe | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 safe | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 safe | cop |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 island | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dragged | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 dragged | cc |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dragged | obl |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dragged | aux:pass |
| 18 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | advcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 dragged | compound:prt |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 necks | nmod:poss |
| 21 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 necks | amod |
| 22 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dragged | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 believe | nsubj |
| 24 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 believe | aux |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 believe | advmod |
| 26 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 necks | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · perfect | I | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme island=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | future | you | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drag off | present · passive | I not said here | your silly necks | unless your heads | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: neck=Theme | |||
| 4 | not believe | future | you | your silly necks not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Stimulus |
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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