The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 112
Praise him with nightingale words-- Nay, I will praise him instead.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: praise · To what, where: 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, 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 | Praise | praise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Praise | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 4 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | compound |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Praise | obl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 praise | punct |
| 7 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 11 praise | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nay | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 praise | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 praise | aux |
| 11 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Praise | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 praise | obj |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 11 praise | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Praise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | imperative | you not said here | tikki | with nightingale words | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | praise | future | I | tikki | instead property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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