The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 143
Well, leave thy elephants unshackled tonight and see what comes.
Who acts: you, elephants · What happens: leave, unshackle, see, come · To what, where: elephants · 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, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 leave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 elephants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leave | obj |
| 6 | unshackled | unshackle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 leave | xcomp |
| 7 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | thy elephants | tonight | tree rules | |||
| 2 | unshackle | participle | thy elephants not said here | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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