The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 110

I sit still and wait.”

Who acts: I · What happens: sit, wait

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sit	nsubj
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 sit	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sit	conj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	I				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	infinitive	I not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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