The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 65
Rikki-tikki knew that he must catch her, or all the trouble would begin again.
Who acts: Rikki tikki, tikki, trouble · What happens: know, catch, begin · To what, where: cobra · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rikki tikki, tikki, trouble), 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 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rikki | punct |
| 3 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 catch | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 catch | aux |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 begin | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 begin | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 trouble | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trouble | det |
| 14 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 begin | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 begin | aux |
| 16 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 catch | advcl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 begin | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Rikki tikki | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | catch | must | tikki | cobra | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | would | all trouble | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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