The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 64

The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Who acts: motto, Rikki tikki · What happens: be, find out · To what, where: Run, true mongoose

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 (motto, Rikki tikki), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 motto	det
2	motto	motto	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Run	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 family	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 family	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
6	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 family	compound
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 motto	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Run	cop
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Run	punct
10	Run	Run	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 find	cc
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Run	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 find	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 Run	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mongoose	cc
17	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 tikki	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Rikki	punct
19	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mongoose	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 mongoose	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mongoose	det
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mongoose	amod
23	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Run	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the motto of all mongoose family	Run and a true mongoose	tree rules
2	find out in a quote	infinitive	the motto of all mongoose family not said here		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Rikki tikki	a true mongoose	tree rules

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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