The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 41

You should have talked to Chua in the garden.”

Who acts: You · What happens: talk · To what, where: Chua, garden

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), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 talked	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 talked	aux
4	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Chua	case
6	Chua	Chua	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 talked	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	should · perfect	You		Chua	the garden			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chua=Co-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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