The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 121

Why should Petersen Sahib have chosen me to go down with you donkeys of the rice fields?

Who acts: Petersen · What happens: choose, go down · To what, where: me

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 (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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 chosen	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 chosen	aux
3	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chosen	nsubj
4	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Petersen	flat
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chosen	aux
6	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 chosen	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chosen	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 donkeys	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 donkeys	nsubj
13	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 fields	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fields	det
16	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fields	compound
17	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 donkeys	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	should · perfect	Petersen	me					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	go down	to-infinitive	Petersen not said here					with donkeys of the rice fields; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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