The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 83
All you have to do is to obey the man at your head and ask no questions.”
Who acts: you, All · What happens: have, do, be, ask · To what, where: head, questions
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, All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 obey | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 obey | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 obey | mark |
| 8 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obey | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obey | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 obey | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 questions | det |
| 17 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ask | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 obey | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | All | your head | obey property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | All not said here | no questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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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