The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 112

Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (and indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life’s end) that I feel your words are true.

Who acts: I, words, your · What happens: tell, be, feel, word · To what, where: Ye, me, man, wolf · 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, words, your), 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	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 told	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 often	advmod
6	often	often	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
7	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl:unmarked
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 man	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 man	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 wolf	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wolf	cc
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	21 wolf	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 wolf	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wolf	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 wolf	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 wolf	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wolf	det
21	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	appos
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 wolf	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 end	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 life	nmod:poss
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 end	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 life	case
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wolf	nmod
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 wolf	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 feel	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 feel	nsubj
32	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	advcl
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 words	nmod:poss
34	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 true	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 true	cop
36	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 feel	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		Ye	me	tonight	often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
2	is a	present	I	a man				tree rules
3	is a	would · perfect	I	a wolf		to my life's end	with you; indeed property	tree rules
4	feel	present	I					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	present	your words				true property	tree rules
6	word		your					nom word «communication 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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