The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 84
Always keep hidden as much as possible, even if you have to go a mile out of your way.
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, hide, have, go · To what, where: mile, way
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 | Always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 keep | advmod |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 keep | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hidden | conj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 possible | mark |
| 7 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 much | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 have | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keep | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mile | det |
| 16 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | participle | you not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | a mile | your way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=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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