The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 119

I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar-cane: I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs.

Who acts: I · What happens: not sell, go out · To what, where: back, man, wood folk

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	4 sell	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sell	advmod
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 man	case
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 bundle	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bundle	det
11	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 cane	case
13	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cane	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sugar	punct
15	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bundle	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sell	parataxis
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 kind	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 kind	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kind	amod
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 folk	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 folk	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 folk	det
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 folk	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 wood	punct
30	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 lairs	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 lairs	nmod:poss
33	lairs	lair	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 folk	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sell	future	I	my back	man for a bundle of sugar cane				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent back=Theme to man=Recipient
2	go out	future	I	the wood folk in affairs's lairs				to my own kind; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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