The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 21
“This thing will die if I do not give it things to eat”; and he dropped twigs and dried bark on the red stuff.
Who acts: thing, Mowgli · What happens: die, not give, eat, drop, dry · To what, where: thing, things, twigs, bark, red stuff · 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 (thing, Mowgli), 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 | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thing | det |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 die | aux |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 give | advmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 die | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | obj |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 things | acl |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 eat | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dropped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dropped | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dropped | nsubj |
| 19 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 die | parataxis |
| 20 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dropped | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dried | cc |
| 22 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dropped | conj |
| 23 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dried | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 stuff | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stuff | det |
| 26 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stuff | amod |
| 27 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dried | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | future | this thing | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | Mowgli | thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | things not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | Mowgli | twigs | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dry | participle | Mowgli not said here | bark | the red stuff | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bark=Result |
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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