The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 113

Before I’d lie down, not to speak of sitting down, and let a man fire across me, my heels and his head would have something to say to each other.

Who acts: I, head · What happens: have, lie down, not speak, sit down, let, say · To what, where: man fire, something, each · 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 (I, head), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 ’d	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’d	nsubj
3	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ’d	ccomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lie	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 speak	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 speak	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 speak	mark
9	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	parataxis
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 sitting	mark
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 speak	advcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 sitting	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ’d	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fire	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fire	compound
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	obj
19	across	across	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heels	punct
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heels	nmod:poss
23	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 let	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	conj
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 have	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 say	mark
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 something	acl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 each	case
33	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	31 say	obl
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 each	fixed
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I				tree rules
2	lie down	infinitive	I not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	gerund				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	let	infinitive	I not said here	a man fire		across me; my heels obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
6	have	would	camp's head	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	camp's head not said here	something not said here	each		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

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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