The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 167

“Come to the foot of the hill when thou art a man, and we will talk to thee; and we will come into the croplands to play with thee by night.”

Who acts: you, we · What happens: come, talk, play · To what, where: foot, croplands

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, we), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 foot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 foot	det
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 foot	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 art	advmod
10	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 art	nsubj
11	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 art	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 talk	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 talk	cc
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 talk	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 talk	aux
18	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 thee	case
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 talk	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 croplands	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 croplands	det
28	croplands	cropland	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 come	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 play	mark
30	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	advcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 thee	case
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 play	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 night	case
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 play	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the foot of the hill			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
2	talk in a quote	future	we			to thee	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to thou=Co-Agent
3	come in a quote	future	we	the croplands			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cropland=Initial_Location
4	play in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here		night	with thee	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thou=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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