The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 34
“And how am I to be sure that Nag won’t mistake me for you some dark night?”
Who acts: Chuchundra, Nag · What happens: be, not mistake · 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, Nag), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 how | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 sure | advmod |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | cop |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sure | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | cop |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 mistake | mark |
| 10 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mistake | nsubj |
| 11 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 mistake | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 mistake | advmod |
| 13 | mistake | mistake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 mistake | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 mistake | obl |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 night | det |
| 18 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 night | amod |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mistake | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Chuchundra | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not mistake in a quote | future | Nag | Chuchundra | night | for you | tree rules |
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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