The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 7
Son, I’m proud of you, and what’s more, I’ll come with you to your island--if there is such a place.”
Who acts: I, place · What happens: be, come · To what, where: island
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 (I, place), 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 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ’m | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Son | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ’m | nsubj |
| 4 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ’m | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 proud | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’s | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ’s | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 ’s | nsubj |
| 11 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ’m | parataxis |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 ’s | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ’s | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 island | nmod:poss |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 is | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 is | expl |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | parataxis |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 place | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 is | nsubj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’m | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | Son vocative; proud property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | future | I | your island | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | such place | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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