The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 118
You’re safe enough in your nest there, but it’s war for me down here.
Who acts: You · What happens: be · To what, where: nest
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ’re | nsubj |
| 2 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ’re | xcomp |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 ’re | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 nest | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ’re | obl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 ’re | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ’s | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 ’s | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ’s | nsubj |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ’re | conj |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ’s | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ’s | obl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 ’s | compound:prt |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 ’s | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | You | your nest; there | enough, safe property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=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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