The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 64
“All the jungle is thine,” said Bagheera, “and thou canst kill everything that thou art strong enough to kill; but for the sake of the bull that bought thee thou must never kill or eat any cattle young or old.
Who acts: jungle, Bagheera, thou, bull · What happens: be, say, kill, buy, not kill, eat · To what, where: thine, everything, thee, cattle · 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 (jungle, Bagheera, thou, bull), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 jungle | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jungle | det |
| 4 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thine | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thine | cop |
| 6 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thine | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thine | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kill | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 kill | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kill | cc |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | aux |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 art | obj |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 art | nsubj |
| 20 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 everything | acl:relcl |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 art | xcomp |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 strong | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 kill | mark |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 strong | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 kill | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 kill | cc |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 sake | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sake | det |
| 29 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 kill | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 bull | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bull | det |
| 32 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sake | nmod |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 bought | nsubj |
| 34 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bull | acl:relcl |
| 35 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 bought | obj |
| 36 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 bought | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 kill | aux |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 kill | advmod |
| 39 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 eat | cc |
| 41 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 kill | conj |
| 42 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 cattle | det |
| 43 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 eat | obj |
| 44 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 cattle | amod |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 old | cc |
| 46 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 young | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | all jungle | thine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bagheera | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | can | thou | everything | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | buy in a quote | past | the bull | thee | thou obl:unmarked | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 6 | not kill in a quote | must | for the sake of the bull | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | eat in a quote | infinitive | any cattle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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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