The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 125
“Go thou down quickly to the men’s huts in the valley, and take some of the Red Flower which they grow there, so that when the time comes thou mayest have even a stronger friend than I or Baloo or those of the Pack that love thee.
Who acts: you, huts, time, Pack · What happens: go down, take, grow, come, have, love · To what, where: thou, some, Red Flower, stronger friend, thee
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 (you, huts, time, Pack), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Go | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 Go | compound:prt |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 huts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 huts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 men | case |
| 10 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Go | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 valley | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 valley | det |
| 13 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 huts | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | parataxis |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Flower | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Flower | det |
| 20 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Flower | flat |
| 21 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 some | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 grow | obj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 grow | nsubj |
| 24 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Flower | acl:relcl |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 grow | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 have | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 so | fixed |
| 29 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 comes | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 time | det |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 comes | nsubj |
| 32 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | advcl |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 comes | obj |
| 34 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | aux |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | conj |
| 36 | even | even | ADV | _ | 39 friend | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 friend | det |
| 38 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 friend | amod |
| 39 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 41 I | case |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 friend | nmod |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 Baloo | cc |
| 43 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 friend | conj |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 those | cc |
| 45 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 friend | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Pack | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Pack | det |
| 48 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 those | nmod |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 love | nsubj |
| 50 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 Pack | acl:relcl |
| 51 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 50 love | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down in a quote | imperative | you not said here | thou | to the men's huts in the valley result; quickly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient thou=Extent to hut=Result | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | some | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow in a quote | present | huts = hut | the Red Flower | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | the time | thou | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | may | a stronger friend or Baloo | than Mowgli | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 6 | love in a quote | present | the Pack | thee | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
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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