The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 105
Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!
Who acts: you · What happens: sing, lift up · To what, where: Mother, fledglings, head
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. 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 | Sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 fledglings | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fledglings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fledglings | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sing | obl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Sing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mother | punct |
| 7 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lift | punct |
| 9 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 lift | discourse |
| 10 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sing | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lift | compound:prt |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lift | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | imperative | you not said here | Mother | your fledglings | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fledgling=Recipient | ||
| 2 | lift up | infinitive | you not said here | your head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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