The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 53

You’re right, Chuchundra; I should have talked to Chua.”

Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: Chuchundra, Chua

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, I), 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	2 ’re	nsubj
2	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ’re	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Chuchundra	punct
5	Chuchundra	Chuchundra	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ’re	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 talked	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 talked	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 talked	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 talked	aux
10	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 ’re	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Chua	case
12	Chua	Chua	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 talked	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’re	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 ’re	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	You	Chuchundra				right property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	should · perfect	I		Chua				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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