The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 171

“Would it were so in Afghanistan!” said the chief, “for there we obey only our own wills.”

Who acts: driver, Afghanistan, we, our · What happens: be, say, obey, will · To what, where: Afghanistan, chief, own wills · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (driver, Afghanistan, we, our), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 Afghanistan	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Afghanistan	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Afghanistan	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 Afghanistan	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Afghanistan	case
7	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Afghanistan	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Afghanistan	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chief	det
12	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 obey	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 obey	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 there	case
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 obey	obl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 obey	nsubj
18	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 wills	advmod
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wills	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wills	amod
22	wills	will	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 obey	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 obey	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	driver		Afghanistan	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	Afghanistan	the chief		tree rules
3	obey in a quote	present	we	our own wills		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent will=Theme
4	will in a quote		our			nom will «cognition transitive»: poss=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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