The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 38
“Now you just explain to me why you don’t like this!”
Who acts: you · What happens: explain, not like · To what, where: troop horse, this
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 explain | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 explain | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 explain | advmod |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 like | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 explain | obl |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 like | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 like | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 like | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 like | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 like | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert in a quote | present | you | the troop horse = horse | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | you | this | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=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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