The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 24
“They would have killed him last night, but they needed thee also.
Who acts: villagers · What happens: kill, need · To what, where: villagers, thee
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 (villagers), 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 killed | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 killed | aux |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | obj |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 needed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 needed | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 needed | nsubj |
| 12 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | conj |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 needed | obj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 needed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | would · perfect · passive | villagers = villager | night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | ||||
| 2 | need in a quote | past | villagers = villager | thee | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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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