The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 169

“Oh, wise little frog, come again soon; for we be old, thy mother and I.”

Who acts: you, we · What happens: come, be

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	_	8 come	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 come	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frog	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frog	amod
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 come	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 old	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 old	case
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 old	nsubj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 old	cop
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 come	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
17	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 old	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 I.	cc
20	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 mother	conj
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	imperative	you not said here				again	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	infinitive	we					old property	tree rules

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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