The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 110
“And even as I returned to my jungle, so thou must go back to men at last--to the men who are thy brothers--if thou art not killed in the Council.”
Who acts: Black Panther, thou, brothers · What happens: return, go back, be, not kill · To what, where: last, brothers, thou, Council
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Black Panther, thou, brothers), 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 returned | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 returned | cc |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 returned | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 jungle | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 jungle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 returned | ccomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 go | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 brothers | punct |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 men | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 men | det |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 brothers | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 brothers | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 brothers | cop |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 go | parataxis |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 killed | punct |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 killed | mark |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 killed | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 killed | advmod |
| 33 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Council | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Council | det |
| 36 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 killed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 brothers | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return in a quote | past | the Black Panther = panther | to my jungle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go back in a quote | must | thou | last | to men result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to man=Result | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | thy brothers | to the men | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | thy brothers not said here | thou | the Council | vn remove-10.1 «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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