The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 8
“Kala Nag, my lord, let us keep by Pudmini and go to Petersen Sahib’s camp, or I shall drop from thy neck.”
Who acts: Kala, us, Little Toomai · What happens: let, keep, go, drop · To what, where: us, camp, neck
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 (Kala, us, Little Toomai), 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 | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 2 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 let | nsubj |
| 3 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kala | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lord | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Kala | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kala | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Pudmini | case |
| 12 | Pudmini | Pudmini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 keep | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 camp | case |
| 16 | Petersen | Petersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 camp | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Petersen | flat |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Petersen | case |
| 19 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drop | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 drop | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 drop | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 drop | aux |
| 24 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 neck | case |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 neck | nmod:poss |
| 27 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drop | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | Kala | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | by Pudmini | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by pudmini=Location | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | Petersen's camp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | drop in a quote | shall | Little Toomai = toomai | thy neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from neck=Trajectory |
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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