The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 70
Next time I have to go over a man lying down I shall step on him--hard.”
Who acts: I · What happens: have, go, lie down, step
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 (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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 time | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 go | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lying | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 step | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 step | aux |
| 14 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lying | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 step | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 hard | punct |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | over a man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over man=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lie down | gerund | I not said here | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | step | shall | I | on man | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=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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