The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 146
Nor do I think that ye will sit here any longer, lolling out your tongues as though ye were somebodies, instead of dogs whom I drive out--thus!
Who acts: I, ye · What happens: think, sit, loll out, be, drive out · To what, where: tongues, somebodies, dogs · 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, ye), 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 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 4 think | discourse |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 sit | mark |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 sit | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sit | aux |
| 8 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sit | advmod |
| 10 | any | any | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 sit | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lolling | punct |
| 13 | lolling | loll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sit | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 lolling | compound:prt |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lolling | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 somebodies | advmod |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 somebodies | mark |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 somebodies | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 somebodies | cop |
| 21 | somebodies | somebody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lolling | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dogs | punct |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 25 dogs | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 instead | fixed |
| 25 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 somebodies | appos |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 drive | obj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 drive | nsubj |
| 28 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 drive | advmod |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 drive | punct |
| 31 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 drive | advmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | future | ye | here | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | loll out | gerund | ye not said here | your tongues | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tongue=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | ye | somebodies | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drive out | present | I | dogs | out, thus property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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