The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 114
Let us sing about the great, the red-eyed Rikki-tikki!”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, sing · To what, where: us, eyed Rikki tikki
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 (you, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 great | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 great | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tikki | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tikki | det |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyed | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 red | punct |
| 11 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tikki | amod |
| 12 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tikki | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rikki | punct |
| 14 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sing | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | infinitive | us not said here | the eyed Rikki tikki | about the great | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about great=Location |
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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