The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 31

“Rikki-tikki, don’t kill me!”

Who acts: Rikki tikki · What happens: not kill · To what, where: Chuchundra

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 (Rikki tikki), 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	_	8 kill	punct
2	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tikki	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Rikki	punct
4	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tikki	punct
6	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 kill	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 kill	advmod
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kill in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Rikki tikki	Chuchundra					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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