The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 127

Because I was all but your brother in blood, I promise that when I am a man among men I will not betray ye to men as ye have betrayed me.”

Who acts: I, man · What happens: be, promise, not betray, betray · To what, where: brother, blood, man, ye · 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, man), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 brother	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 brother	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brother	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 brother	advmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 brother	cc
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promise	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 blood	case
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brother	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 promise	nsubj
12	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 betray	mark
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 man	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 man	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 man	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 betray	nsubj
19	among	among	ADP	_	20 men	case
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 man	nmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 betray	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 betray	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 betray	advmod
24	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promise	ccomp
25	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 betray	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 men	case
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 betray	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 betrayed	mark
29	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 betrayed	nsubj:pass
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 betrayed	aux
31	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 betray	advcl
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 betrayed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	your brother	blood	all property	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present	I	a man		among men	tree rules
4	not betray	future	a man	ye		to men	tree rules
5	betray	present · perfect · passive		ye			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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