The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 42

“I didn’t--so you must tell me.

Who acts: Chuchundra, you · What happens: not do, tell · 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, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	advcl
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 did	advmod
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 tell	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	past	Chuchundra						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	you		Chuchundra				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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