The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 42

He shall become greater than I, even I, Machua Appa!

Who acts: grandfather · What happens: become

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 (grandfather), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 I	case
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 greater	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 I	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 I	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 become	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Machua	punct
11	Machua	Machua	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 I	conj
12	Appa	Appa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Machua	flat
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	shall	grandfather					great property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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