The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 38
Listen, too, you my lords in the lines there, for I, Machua Appa, am speaking!
Who acts: you · What happens: listen, lord, speak · To what, where: lines · 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), 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Listen | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lords | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lords | nsubj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lords | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Listen | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lines | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lines | det |
| 10 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lords | nmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Listen | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Appa | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Appa | case |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 Appa | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Appa | punct |
| 16 | Machua | Machua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Appa | compound |
| 17 | Appa | Appa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Listen | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 speaking | punct |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 speaking | aux |
| 20 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Listen | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | there | for Machua Appa | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for appa=Theme | |||
| 2 | lord | you | the lines | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present · progressive | you not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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