The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 120
I will go out until the day, until the morning break-- Out to the wind’s untainted kiss, the water’s clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
Who acts: I, picket, wind, water · What happens: go out, forget, snap, stake, kiss, caress · To what, where: ankle ring
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, picket, wind, water), 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 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | until | until | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 break | punct |
| 9 | until | until | ADP | _ | 12 break | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 break | det |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 break | compound |
| 12 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | parataxis |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 kiss | punct |
| 14 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 20 kiss | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 kiss | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wind | det |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 wind | case |
| 19 | untainted | untainted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kiss | amod |
| 20 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 caress | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 caress | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 water | case |
| 25 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 caress | amod |
| 26 | caress | caress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kiss | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 forget | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 forget | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 forget | aux |
| 30 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | parataxis |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 ring | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ring | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 ankle | punct |
| 34 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forget | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 snap | cc |
| 36 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 forget | conj |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 picket | nmod:poss |
| 38 | picket | picket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stake | nsubj |
| 39 | stake | stake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 snap | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | future | I | day | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | forget | future | I | my ankle ring | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | snap | infinitive | I not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stake | infinitive | my picket | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | kiss | the wind | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | caress | the water | nom caress «act transitive»: poss=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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