The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 132
“Not eat exactly; no. Darzee, if you have a grain of sense you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken, and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush.
Who acts: you, grain, Nagaina · What happens: not eat, have, fly off, pretend, break, let · To what, where: no. Darzee, wing, Nagaina, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, grain, Nagaina), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 eat | advmod |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 eat | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 Darzee | punct |
| 6 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 7 Darzee | compound |
| 7 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 grain | det |
| 13 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fly | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sense | case |
| 15 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grain | nmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 fly | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fly | aux |
| 18 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | ccomp |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 fly | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 stables | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stables | det |
| 22 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fly | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pretend | cc |
| 24 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fly | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 broken | mark |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wing | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 broken | aux:pass |
| 29 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 pretend | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 let | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 let | cc |
| 32 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | conj |
| 33 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 let | obj |
| 34 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 let | xcomp |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 chase | obj |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 chase | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 bush | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 bush | det |
| 39 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 away | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat in a quote | imperative | you not said here | no. Darzee | exactly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly off in a quote | future | a grain of sense | to the stables result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stable=Result | ||||
| 4 | pretend in a quote | present | a grain of sense not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | break in a quote | present · passive | your wing | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Nagaina | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | chase in a quote | infinitive | Nagaina not said here | you | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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