The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 1

Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother.

Who acts: you, cubs, stranger, Bear · What happens: not oppress, hail, be · To what, where: cubs, Bear, mother

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cubs, stranger, Bear), 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	Oppress	oppress	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Oppress	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cubs	det
4	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Oppress	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 stranger	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cubs	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hail	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 hail	cc
10	hail	hail	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Oppress	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hail	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 Sister	case
13	Sister	Sister	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hail	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Brother	cc
15	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Sister	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 little	punct
17	For	for	ADP	_	21 little	case
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 little	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 little	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 little	cop
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hail	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fubsy	cc
23	fubsy	fubsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 little	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Bear	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 Bear	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 Bear	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 Bear	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Bear	det
29	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mother	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 mother	cop
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mother	nmod:poss
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Oppress	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Oppress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not oppress	imperative	you not said here	the cubs of the stranger		tree rules
2	hail	infinitive	you not said here	cubs = cub	as Sister and Brother	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme as sister=Attribute
3	is	present	cubs = cub		little property	tree rules
4	be		cubs = cub not said here			tree rules
5	is a	may	stranger	the Bear		tree rules
6	is a	present	the Bear	cubs's mother		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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