The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 175

Tell them in the jungle never to forget me!”

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, not forget · To what, where: tongues, jungle, me · 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 (you), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 jungle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jungle	det
5	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 forget	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 forget	mark
8	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 forget	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 forget	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		tongues = tongue	the jungle			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not forget not said to happen	to-infinitive		me					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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