The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 41
Next morning he gave him a scolding and said, “Are not good brick elephant lines and a little tent carrying enough, that thou must needs go elephant catching on thy own account, little worthless?
Who acts: Kya, little tent, that, elephant, thy · What happens: give, say, not be, carry, need, go · To what, where: scolding, Kala, good brick elephant lines, elephant, own account · 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 (Kya, little tent, that, elephant), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 scolding | det |
| 7 | scolding | scolding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lines | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lines | punct |
| 12 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lines | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 lines | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lines | amod |
| 15 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lines | compound |
| 16 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lines | compound |
| 17 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tent | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tent | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tent | amod |
| 21 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lines | conj |
| 22 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 tent | acl |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 carrying | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 needs | punct |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 needs | nsubj |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 needs | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 needs | aux |
| 28 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lines | parataxis |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 needs | xcomp |
| 30 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obj |
| 31 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 elephant | acl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 account | case |
| 33 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 account | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 account | amod |
| 35 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 catching | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 worthless | punct |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 worthless | amod |
| 38 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 account | conj |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Kya | a scolding | Kala | morning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient scolding=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Kya not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | good brick elephant lines and a little tent | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | gerund | a little tent not said here | enough property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | need in a quote | must | that | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | that not said here | elephant | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location elephant=Theme | ||||
| 7 | catch in a quote | gerund | elephant not said here | thy own account | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | account in a quote | thy | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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