The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 110
He will never eat my babies again.”
Who acts: Nag · What happens: not eat · To what, where: babies
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nag), 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 | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 babies | nmod:poss |
| 6 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 eat | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | future | Nag | my babies | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
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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