The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 21
“You know I don’t mind that now, Billy.
Who acts: You, young mule · What happens: know, not mind · 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 (You, young mule), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mind | advmod |
| 7 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 now | mark |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 mind | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Billy | punct |
| 11 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mind | vocative |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not mind in a quote | present · do-support | the young mule = mule | now | Billy vocative | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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