The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 114

I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki, with eyeballs of red!

Who acts: I · What happens: sing, tail, praise · To what, where: praise, you, tailed Rikki

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sing	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sing	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 praise	det
6	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 Rikki	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Rikki	det
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tailed	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 bottle	punct
11	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Rikki	amod
12	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 praise	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eyeballs	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 eyeballs	case
15	eyeballs	eyeball	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 red	case
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eyeballs	nmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	sing speech: express	future	I	the praise of the tailed Rikki	you	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary praise=Theme
2	tail	participle				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	praise			the tailed Rikki		nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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