The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 121
“May I be flogged with my own pad-chains!
What happens: flog · To what, where: troop horse
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 flogged | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 flogged | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 flogged | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 flogged | aux:pass |
| 5 | flogged | flog | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 chains | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chains | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chains | amod |
| 9 | pad | pad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chains | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 pad | punct |
| 11 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flogged | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 flogged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flog in a quote | may · passive | the troop horse = horse | with my own pad chains | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with chain=Instrument |
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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