The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 134
If you pass us on the ground tomorrow, don’t trumpet.
Who acts: you · What happens: pass, not trumpet · To what, where: us, ground
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: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 pass | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 trumpet | advcl |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pass | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pass | obl |
| 8 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ground | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 trumpet | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 trumpet | advmod |
| 12 | trumpet | trumpet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 trumpet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass a condition, not said to happen | present | you | us | the ground tomorrow | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent we=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | not trumpet | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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