The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 22
They dare not move, and if you come a step nearer I strike.”
Who acts: friends, you, I · What happens: not move, come, strike
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 (friends, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 move | nsubj |
| 2 | dare | dare | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 move | advmod |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 strike | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 strike | cc |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 strike | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 step | det |
| 11 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nearer | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 come | xcomp |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 strike | nsubj |
| 14 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | dare | friends = friend | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | you | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | present | I | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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