The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 163

But first I must say farewell to my mother.”

Who acts: I · What happens: say · To what, where: farewell, mother · 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), 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	_	5 say	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 say	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	must	I	farewell	my mother			first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic to mother=Recipient

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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