The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 55
But, son, I am angry that thou shouldst meddle in the business that belongs to these dirty Assamese jungle folk.
Who acts: son, thou, business · What happens: be, meddle, belong · To what, where: business
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 (son, thou, business), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 angry | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 angry | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | cop |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 meddle | mark |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 meddle | nsubj |
| 10 | shouldst | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 meddle | aux |
| 11 | meddle | meddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 angry | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 business | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 business | det |
| 14 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meddle | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 belongs | nsubj |
| 16 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 business | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 folk | case |
| 18 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 folk | nsubj |
| 19 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 folk | amod |
| 20 | Assamese | assamese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 folk | amod |
| 21 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 folk | compound |
| 22 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 belongs | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | son | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meddle | should | thou | the business | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | belong | present | the business | to dirty Assamese jungle folk | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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