The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 50
“Give me the egg, Rikki-tikki.
Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: egg, Rikki 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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 egg | det |
| 5 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tikki | punct |
| 7 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tikki | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 tikki | punct |
| 9 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the egg | Rikki tikki and the melon bed near the wall = tikki | Rikki tikki obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient egg=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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