The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 126

But I will be more merciful than ye are.

Who acts: I · What happens: be

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 merciful	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 merciful	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 merciful	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 merciful	cop
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 merciful	amod
6	merciful	merciful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ye	case
8	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 merciful	obl
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 merciful	cop
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 merciful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	I					than ye; merciful property	tree rules

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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