The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 66
“If you don’t trust your man, you may as well run away at once.
Who acts: you · What happens: not trust, run away · To what, where: man
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), 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 | _ | 6 trust | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 trust | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 trust | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trust | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 trust | advmod |
| 6 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 man | nmod:poss |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trust | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trust | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 run | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 run | aux |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 14 run | cc |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trust | parataxis |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 run | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not trust in a quote | present · do-support | you | your man | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run away in a quote | may | you | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
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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