The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 52

Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.

Who acts: you, Mowgli, life · What happens: be, skip, guess, lead, write out, fill · To what, where: wonderful life, wolves, life, many books

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, Mowgli, life), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 content	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 content	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 content	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 content	cop
5	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 skip	mark
7	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 content	csubj
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 eleven	cc
10	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ten	conj
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 skip	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 guess	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 guess	cc
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 guess	advmod
16	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 content	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 life	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 life	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 life	det
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 life	amod
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guess	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 led	mark
23	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 led	nsubj
24	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 guess	advcl
25	among	among	ADP	_	27 wolves	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wolves	det
27	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 led	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fill	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 fill	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 written	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 written	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 written	aux:pass
33	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 fill	advcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 written	compound:prt
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fill	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 fill	aux
37	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 guess	conj
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 fill	advmod
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 many	advmod
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 books	amod
41	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fill	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	you			now	content property	tree rules
2	skip	to-infinitive				year		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	guess	infinitive			all wonderful life			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at life=Value
4	lead	past	Mowgli		the wolves			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among wolf=Destination
5	write out a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		life				vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	fill	would	life	many books		ever		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient

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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