The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 36

And tell the Deep-Sea Viceroys the story of our woe; Ere, empty as the shark’s egg the tempest flings ashore, The Beaches of Lukannon shall know their sons no more!

Who acts: you, tempest, Beaches · What happens: tell, fling, know · To what, where: story, Deep Sea Viceroys, egg, sons · 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 (you, tempest, Beaches), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 tell	cc
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Viceroys	det
4	Deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Viceroys	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Deep	punct
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Viceroys	compound
7	Viceroys	Viceroy	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 tell	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 woe	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 woe	nmod:poss
12	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 story	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 Ere	punct
14	Ere	Ere	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 empty	punct
16	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Ere	amod
17	as	as	ADP	_	21 egg	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shark	det
19	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 egg	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 shark	case
21	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 empty	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tempest	det
23	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flings	nsubj
24	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 egg	acl:relcl
25	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	24 flings	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Beaches	det
28	Beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 know	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Lukannon	case
30	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Beaches	nmod
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 know	aux
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Ere	conj
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sons	nmod:poss
34	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 know	obj
35	no	no	ADV	_	36 more	advmod
36	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 know	advmod
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the story of our woe	the Deep Sea Viceroys	Ere obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent viceroy=Recipient story=Topic
2	fling	present	the tempest	the shark's egg not said here		ashore property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
3	know	shall	the Beaches of Lukannon	beaches's sons			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer son=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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