The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 130

But here is a debt to pay before I go.”

Who acts: debt, I · What happens: be, pay, go

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 (debt, 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	_	2 here	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 debt	det
5	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pay	mark
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 debt	acl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 go	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	a debt	here property	tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	a debt not said here		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	present	I		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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