The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 149
A mountain ledge, a well-balanced load, a driver you can trust to let you pick your own way, and I’m your mule.
Who acts: driver, you, I · What happens: balance, trust, let, pick, be · To what, where: you, own way, mule
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 (driver, you, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ledge | det |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ledge | compound |
| 3 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 load | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 load | det |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 balanced | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | balanced | balance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 load | amod |
| 9 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ledge | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trust | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 driver | det |
| 12 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trust | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 trust | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 trust | aux |
| 15 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ledge | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 let | mark |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trust | xcomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pick | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ’m | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ’m | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 ’m | nsubj |
| 26 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 trust | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mule | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ’m | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ledge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | balance | participle | well property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | trust | can | a driver | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | a driver not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pick | infinitive | you not said here | your own way | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 5 | be | present | I | your mule | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mule=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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