The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 195
All they can do is to stop my driver’s pay till I get well, and I can’t trust my driver.”
Who acts: shells, All, I, driver · What happens: do, be, get, not trust, pay · To what, where: driver
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 (shells, All, I, driver), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 stop | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stop | mark |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 driver | nmod:poss |
| 9 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 driver | case |
| 11 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stop | obj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | advcl |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trust | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 trust | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 trust | nsubj |
| 19 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 trust | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 trust | advmod |
| 21 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stop | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 driver | nmod:poss |
| 23 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trust | iobj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stop | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | shells = shell | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | All | stop property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | present | I | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not trust | can | I | my driver | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pay | my driver | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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