The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 74

Give me the man-cub, or I will hunt here always, and not give you one bone.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, hunt, not give · To what, where: man cub, me, one bone, you

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, I), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cub	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cub	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hunt	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 hunt	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hunt	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hunt	aux
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 hunt	advmod
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 hunt	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 give	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 give	advmod
17	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 bone	nummod
20	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the man cub	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient cub=Theme
2	hunt	future	I			here	always property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not give	infinitive	you not said here	one bone	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bone=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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