The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 117

The others they hate thee because their eyes cannot meet thine; because thou art wise; because thou hast pulled out thorns from their feet--because thou art a man.”

Who acts: others, eyes · What happens: hate, not meet, pull out · To what, where: thee, thine, thou, feet

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 (others, eyes), 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 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hate	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 hate	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 meet	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 meet	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 meet	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 meet	advmod
11	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hate	advcl
12	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 meet	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 art	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 art	mark
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 art	nsubj
16	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hate	conj
17	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 art	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 pulled	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 pulled	mark
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 pulled	nsubj:pass
21	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pulled	aux:pass
22	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hate	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 pulled	compound:prt
24	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pulled	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pulled	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 art	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 art	mark
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 art	nsubj
31	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pulled	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 art	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hate	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hate	present	the others	thee		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
2	not meet	can	others's eyes	thine		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thy=Co-Agent
3	pull out	present · passive		thou	eyes's feet	tree rules

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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