The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 30
“Don’t kill me,” said Chuchundra, almost weeping.
Who acts: Chuchundra · What happens: not kill, say, weep · To what, where: Chuchundra · 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 (Chuchundra), 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 | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 kill | advmod |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Chuchundra | Chuchundra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weeping | punct |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 weeping | advmod |
| 12 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Chuchundra | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Chuchundra | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | Chuchundra not said here | almost property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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