The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 103
More I cannot do; but if ye will, I can save ye the shame that comes of killing a brother against whom there is no fault--a brother spoken for and bought into the Pack according to the Law of the Jungle.”
Who acts: I, shame, brother · What happens: not do, save, come, kill, be, speak · To what, where: ye, fault, brother, Pack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shame, brother), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 do | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 save | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 will | mark |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 will | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 save | aux |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 will | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 save | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 save | aux |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 save | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shame | det |
| 17 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 save | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 comes | nsubj |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shame | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 killing | mark |
| 21 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 comes | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 brother | det |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fault | nsubj |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 whom | case |
| 25 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 is | obj |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 is | expl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 fault | cop |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 fault | det |
| 29 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 killing | ccomp |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 brother | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 brother | det |
| 32 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fault | conj |
| 33 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 brother | acl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 spoken | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bought | cc |
| 36 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 spoken | conj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 Pack | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Pack | det |
| 39 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bought | obl |
| 40 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 Law | case |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 according | fixed |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Law | det |
| 43 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Pack | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Jungle | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Jungle | det |
| 46 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Law | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | save | can · future | I | ye | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ye=Beneficiary shame=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | present | the shame | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill | gerund | the shame not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | a brother | no fault and a brother | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | participle | a brother not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | buy | participle | the Pack accord the Law of the Jungle | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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