The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 117

“That thou shouldst never be one of these hill buffaloes of trackers.

Who acts: That · What happens: not be · To what, where: one

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 (That), 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	_	7 one	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 one	nsubj
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 one	nsubj
4	shouldst	should	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	7 one	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 one	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 one	cop
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 buffaloes	case
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 buffaloes	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buffaloes	compound
11	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 trackers	case
13	trackers	tracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 buffaloes	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	should	That	one				of this hill buffaloes of trackers	tree rules

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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