The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 102
“Must I never go there, Sahib?” asked Little Toomai with a big gasp.
Who acts: I · What happens: not go, ask · To what, where: Sahib, Little Toomai · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | advcl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sahib | punct |
| 8 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Toomai | amod |
| 13 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 gasp | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gasp | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gasp | amod |
| 17 | gasp | gasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | must | I | Sahib | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Little Toomai | with a big gasp | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toomai=Recipient |
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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