The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 111
Give him the Thanks of the Birds, Bowing with tail feathers spread!
Who acts: you, tail feathers · What happens: give, bow, spread · To what, where: Thanks, tikki
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, tail feathers), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Thanks | det |
| 4 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Birds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Birds | det |
| 7 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Thanks | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bowing | punct |
| 9 | Bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Give | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 spread | mark |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feathers | compound |
| 12 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spread | nsubj |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Bowing | advcl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | the Thanks of the Birds | tikki | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thanks=Theme | |||
| 2 | bow | gerund | you not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spread | present | tail feathers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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