The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 118
He knew that mongooses in the garden meant death sooner or later for him and his family, but he wanted to get Rikki-tikki off his guard.
Who acts: Nag, mongooses · What happens: know, mean, want, get · To what, where: Rikki tikki · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nag, mongooses), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 meant | mark |
| 4 | mongooses | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meant | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mongooses | nmod |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sooner | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 meant | advmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 later | cc |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 sooner | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sooner | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 family | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 family | nmod:poss |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 him | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wanted | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 wanted | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wanted | nsubj |
| 21 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wanted | xcomp |
| 24 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tikki | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Rikki | punct |
| 26 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 guard | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 guard | nmod:poss |
| 29 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Nag | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean | past | mongooses in the garden | soon property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | want | past | Nag | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nag not said here | Rikki tikki | off Nag's guard | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tikki=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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