The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 55

“We’re taught to obey the man at our head: step off when he says so, and step in when he says so.

Who acts: We, man · What happens: teach, obey, step off, say, step in · To what, where: We, man, head · 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 (We, man), 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	_	4 taught	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 taught	nsubj:pass
3	’re	're	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	aux:pass
4	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 obey	mark
6	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taught	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obey	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obey	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 step	punct
13	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taught	parataxis
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 step	compound:prt
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 says	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 step	advcl
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 says	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 step	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 step	cc
21	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 step	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	21 step	compound:prt
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 says	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 says	nsubj
25	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 step	advcl
26	so	so	ADV	_	25 says	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	past · passive		We		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	obey in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	the man	our head	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	step off in a quote	infinitive				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	step in in a quote	infinitive				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	present	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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