The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 26
“Knowing that I have no right to speak here, I ask your leave.”
Who acts: Law · What happens: know, have, speak, ask · To what, where: right, leave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Law), 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 Knowing | punct |
| 2 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ask | advcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 right | det |
| 7 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 speak | mark |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 right | acl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 speak | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Knowing | parataxis |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 leave | nmod:poss |
| 15 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Knowing | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Knowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the Law = law | no right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the Law = law not said here | no right not said here | here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | the Law = law | your leave | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient |
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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