The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 82
The science of the thing is never to show up against the sky line, because, if you do, you may get fired at.
Who acts: science, you · What happens: not be, do, fire · To what, where: you
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 (science, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 science | det |
| 2 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thing | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 science | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 show | cop |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 show | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 show | mark |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 show | compound:prt |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 line | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 line | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 line | compound |
| 14 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fired | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 fired | mark |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 because | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fired | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 fired | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fired | aux |
| 24 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fired | aux:pass |
| 25 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 show | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 fired | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the science of the thing | against the sky line; show property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fire | may · passive | you | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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