The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 9

D’you think they’ll kill us?”

Who acts: D’you, Things · What happens: think, kill · To what, where: us · 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 (D’you, Things), 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	D’you	d'you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	nsubj
4	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kill	aux
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	D’you						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	kill	future	Things = thing	us					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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