The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 10
“I’ve a very great mind to give you a number-one kicking,” said Billy.
Who acts: Billy · What happens: have, give, say · To what, where: great mind, number one kicking, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Billy), 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 | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mind | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 great | advmod |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mind | amod |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’ve | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ’ve | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kicking | det |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kicking | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 number | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 kicking | nummod |
| 15 | kicking | kicking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Billy | a great mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | Billy not said here | a number one kicking | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kicking=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Billy | 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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