The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 107
Come to me when thou hast seen the elephants dance, and then I will let thee go into all the Keddahs.”
Who acts: you, thou, elephants, I, thee · What happens: come, see, dance, let, go · To what, where: me, thee, Keddahs · 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, thou, elephants, 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Come | obl |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Come | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 elephants | det |
| 9 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dance | nsubj |
| 10 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 let | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | aux |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 Keddahs | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 Keddahs | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Keddahs | det |
| 22 | Keddahs | keddah | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | dance | present | the elephants | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let | future | I | thee | then | tree rules | |||
| 5 | go | infinitive | thee not said here | all Keddahs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into keddah=Initial_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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