The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 122
Lay your beast alongside, Toomai, and let him prod with his tusks.
Who acts: you, Toomai · What happens: lay, let, prod · To what, where: beast, Toomai
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, Toomai), 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 | Lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 beast | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lay | obj |
| 4 | alongside | alongside | ADV | _ | 1 Lay | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Toomai | punct |
| 6 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lay | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lay | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | prod | prod | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tusks | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 prod | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | imperative | you not said here | your beast | Toomai obl; alongside property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Result | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | Toomai | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prod | infinitive | Toomai not said here | with Toomai's tusks | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tusk=Instrument |
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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