The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 133

Therefore all the wild elephants to-night will--but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?”

Who acts: wild elephants · What happens: waste · To what, where: wisdom, river turtle

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 (wild elephants), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 elephants	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elephants	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 elephants	amod
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 waste	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elephants	nmod
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 waste	aux
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 waste	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 waste	cc
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 waste	advmod
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 waste	aux
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 waste	nsubj
15	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waste	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 turtle	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 turtle	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turtle	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 river	punct
21	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waste	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 waste	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 waste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	should · future	all wild elephants to night	wisdom				on a river turtle goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wisdom=Asset on turtle=Goal

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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