The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 116
Sit down, and keep your silly neck quiet.”
Who acts: you · What happens: sit down, keep · To what, where: silly neck quiet
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 (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 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Sit | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 keep | cc |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sit | conj |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 quiet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quiet | amod |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quiet | compound |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | your silly neck quiet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quiet=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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