The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 56

Kala Nag will obey none but me, so I must go with him into the Keddah, but he is only a fighting elephant, and he does not help to rope them.

Who acts: Kala, I · What happens: obey, go, be, not help · To what, where: none, Keddah, fighting elephant, rope

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 (Kala, I), 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	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 obey	nsubj
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kala	flat
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 obey	aux
4	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 obey	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 me	cc
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 none	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obey	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	obl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 Keddah	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Keddah	det
17	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 elephant	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 elephant	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 elephant	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 elephant	cop
22	only	only	ADV	_	25 elephant	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 elephant	det
24	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 elephant	compound
25	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obey	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 help	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 help	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 help	nsubj
29	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 help	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 help	advmod
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obey	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 rope	mark
33	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 help	xcomp
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 help	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	obey	future	Kala	none			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme
2	go	must	I		the Keddah	with Kala	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into keddah=Initial_Location
3	is a	present	Kala	a fighting elephant			tree rules
4	not help	present · do-support	Kala	rope			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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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