The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 42
_) This shall end when one is dead; (_At thy pleasure, Nag.
Who acts: _, one, thy · What happens: end, be, please
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 (_, one, thy), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nsubj |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 end | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 end | aux |
| 5 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 dead | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 end | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleasure | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleasure | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleasure | punct |
| 13 | At | at | ADP | _ | 15 pleasure | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nag | punct |
| 17 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pleasure | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | shall | _ | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | one | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | please | thy | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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