The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 51

He may even require thee to be an elephant catcher, to sleep anywhere in these fever-filled jungles, and at last to be trampled to death in the Keddah.

Who acts: Petersen · What happens: require, be, sleep, fill, trample · To what, where: thee, elephant catcher, filled jungles, Keddah

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 require	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 require	aux
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 require	advmod
4	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 require	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	10 catcher	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 catcher	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 catcher	det
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catcher	compound
10	catcher	catcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 require	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sleep	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sleep	mark
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 require	conj
14	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 sleep	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	20 jungles	case
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 jungles	det
17	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 filled	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 fever	punct
19	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 jungles	amod
20	jungles	jungle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sleep	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 last	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 last	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 require	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 trampled	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 trampled	aux:pass
27	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 last	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trampled	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 Keddah	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Keddah	det
32	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 trampled	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 require	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	require	may	Petersen	thee			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Precondition
2	is a	to-infinitive	Petersen not said here	a elephant catcher			tree rules
3	sleep	to-infinitive	Petersen not said here		this filled jungles	anywhere property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in jungle=Location
4	fill	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	trample	to-infinitive · passive	Petersen not said here		the Keddah	to death	tree rules

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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