The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 113

But I may as well give you something on account now.”

Who acts: I · What happens: give · To what, where: something, you, account

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 give	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	6 give	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 give	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 account	case
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 something	nmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 give	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	may	I	something	you	account	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme on account=Asset

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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