The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 64
“I will go, but there is no need that we should hunt for Rikki-tikki afterward.
Who acts: Nag, need · What happens: go, be, hunt
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 (Nag, need), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 is | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 need | det |
| 10 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hunt | nsubj |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hunt | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hunt | aux |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 need | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 tikki | case |
| 16 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 tikki | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Rikki | punct |
| 18 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hunt | obl |
| 19 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 14 hunt | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | Nag | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | no need | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hunt in a quote | should | no need | for Rikki tikki; afterward property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for tikki=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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