The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 115
“Another time,” he said, “you’ll know better than to run through a mule battery at night, shouting `Thieves and fire!’
Who acts: camel, you · What happens: say, know, run, shout · To what, where: mule battery, Thieves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (camel, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 know | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 run | mark |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 run | mark |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | advcl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 battery | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 battery | det |
| 19 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 battery | compound |
| 20 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shouting | punct |
| 24 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 25 | ` | ` | PUNCT | _ | 26 Thieves | punct |
| 26 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shouting | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fire | cc |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Thieves | conj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | camel | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | future | you | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a mule battery | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through battery=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | shout speech: express in a quote | gerund | camel not said here | Thieves and fire | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic |
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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