The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 134
“Then why didn’t you stay and carry baggage for the 39th Native Infantry, instead of running all round the camp?” said the mule.
Who acts: you, mule · What happens: not do, stay, carry, run, say · To what, where: baggage, camp · 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 (you, mule), 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 | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | advcl |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carry | cc |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | conj |
| 10 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Infantry | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Infantry | det |
| 13 | 39th | 39th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 15 Infantry | amod |
| 14 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Infantry | amod |
| 15 | Infantry | infantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 running | punct |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 running | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 said | ccomp |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 camp | advmod |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 camp | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 camp | det |
| 23 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 running | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 running | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 running | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mule | det |
| 28 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | past | you not said here | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | present | you not said here | baggage | for the 39th Native Infantry | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baggage=Theme | |||
| 4 | run in a quote | gerund | the camp | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round camp=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | the mule | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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