The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 101

“Remember, though, that Keddahs are not good for children to play in,” Petersen Sahib went on.

Who acts: you, Keddahs, children, Petersen · What happens: remember, not be, play in, go on · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Keddahs, children, Petersen), 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 Remember	punct
2	Remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 though	punct
4	though	though	ADV	_	2 Remember	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 good	mark
7	Keddahs	keddah	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 good	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Remember	parataxis
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 play	mark
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 play	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 play	mark
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	advcl
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 play	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 play	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct
18	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 went	nsubj
19	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Petersen	flat
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Remember	ccomp
21	on	on	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	imperative	you not said here	though property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not is in a quote	present	Keddahs	good property	tree rules
3	play in in a quote	to-infinitive	children		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go on	past	Petersen		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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