The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 63
Or else Petersen Sahib will surely catch thee and make thee a wild hunter--a follower of elephant’s foot tracks, a jungle bear.
Who acts: Petersen Sahib · What happens: catch, make · To what, where: thee
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 Sahib), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 catch | cc |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 Sahib | advmod |
| 3 | Petersen | Petersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sahib | compound |
| 4 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 catch | aux |
| 6 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 7 catch | advmod |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 catch | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 catch | conj |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hunter | det |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hunter | amod |
| 14 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 follower | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 follower | det |
| 17 | follower | follower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hunter | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tracks | case |
| 19 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 foot | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 elephant | case |
| 21 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tracks | compound |
| 22 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 follower | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bear | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bear | det |
| 25 | jungle | jungle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bear | amod |
| 26 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | future | Petersen Sahib | thee | surely property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | Petersen Sahib not said here | thee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset thou=Beneficiary hunter=Product |
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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