The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 68

Mother Wolf told him once or twice that Shere Khan was not a creature to be trusted, and that some day he must kill Shere Khan.

Who acts: Mother, Shere, Mowgli · What happens: tell, not be, trust, kill · To what, where: Mowgli, creature, Shere · 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 (Mother, Shere, Mowgli), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 told	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 twice	cc
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 once	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 creature	mark
9	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 creature	nsubj
10	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Shere	flat
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 creature	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 creature	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 creature	det
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	17 trusted	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 trusted	aux:pass
17	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 creature	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kill	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 kill	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 kill	mark
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kill	obl:unmarked
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kill	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 kill	aux
25	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
26	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 kill	obj
27	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Shere	flat
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Mother		Mowgli		once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	not is a	past	Shere	a creature				tree rules
3	trust	to-infinitive · passive	Mother not said here					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»
4	kill	must	Mowgli	Shere		day		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shere=Theme

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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