The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 87
Obey the man next to you who gives the order, or you’ll stop all the battery, besides getting a thrashing.”
Who acts: you · What happens: obey, give, stop, beside, get · To what, where: man, you, order, battery, thrashing
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 | Obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Obey | obj |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 1 Obey | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Obey | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gives | nsubj |
| 8 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Obey | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 order | det |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 stop | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stop | aux |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gives | parataxis |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 battery | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 battery | det |
| 18 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stop | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 besides | punct |
| 20 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gives | conj |
| 21 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 besides | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thrashing | det |
| 23 | thrashing | thrashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 getting | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Obey | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | imperative | you not said here | the man | you | next property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | present | the order | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | future | you | all battery | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector battery=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | beside | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | get | gerund | a thrashing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thrashing=Stimulus |
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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