The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 139
Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: stir, ram down · To what, where: whisker, Red Flower
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 (you, 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 | Stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whisker | det |
| 3 | whisker | whisker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stir | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lungri | punct |
| 5 | Lungri | Lungri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 whisker | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ram | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ram | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ram | nsubj |
| 9 | ram | ram | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stir | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Flower | det |
| 11 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Flower | flat |
| 12 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ram | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 ram | compound:prt |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 gullet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gullet | gullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ram | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stir | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | imperative | you not said here | a whisker | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whisker=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ram down | present | I | the Red Flower | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme gullet=Destination |
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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