The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 50
“Take him away,” he said to Father Wolf, “and train him as befits one of the Free People.”
Who acts: Akela · What happens: take away, say, train, befit · To what, where: Akela, one · 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 (Akela), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Father | case |
| 10 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Father | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 train | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 train | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 train | cc |
| 15 | train | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 befits | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 train | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 befits | advmod |
| 18 | befits | befit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 befits | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 People | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 People | det |
| 22 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 People | amod |
| 23 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 befits | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 befits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away in a quote | infinitive | Akela | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Akela | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | train in a quote | present | Akela | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | befit in a quote | present | Akela not said here | one of the Free People | 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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