The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 147

It may be some consolation to you when you’re dead to know that I shall settle accounts with the boy.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, know, settle · To what, where: consolation, you, accounts · 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, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:1710): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 consolation	expl
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 consolation	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 consolation	cop
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 consolation	det
5	consolation	consolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 consolation	nmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 dead	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 dead	nsubj
10	’re	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consolation	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 know	mark
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 consolation	csubj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 settle	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 settle	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 settle	aux
17	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 know	ccomp
18	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 settle	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 boy	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 settle	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 consolation	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	may		some consolation	you		tree rules
2	is	present	you			dead property	tree rules
3	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	settle	shall	I	accounts		with the boy	vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent account=Theme with boy=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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