The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 27

“Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,” Baloo answered very earnestly.

Who acts: Baloo, face · What happens: bruise, love, come, harm, answer · To what, where: Better, head, face, ignorance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Baloo, face), 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	_	6 bruised	punct
2	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 bruised	nsubj:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bruised	nsubj:pass
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bruised	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 bruised	aux:pass
6	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 head	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bruised	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 foot	case
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bruised	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bruised	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 love	nsubj
14	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bruised	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 love	obj
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 love	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 harm	mark
22	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	xcomp
23	through	through	ADP	_	24 ignorance	case
24	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 harm	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruised	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 bruised	punct
27	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 answered	nsubj
28	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bruised	parataxis
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 earnestly	advmod
30	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	28 answered	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bruised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bruise in a quote	should · passive	Baloo	Better	head	to foot	tree rules
2	love in a quote	present		face			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	come in a quote	should	face				tree rules
4	harm in a quote	to-infinitive	face not said here		ignorance		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	answer speech: assert	past	Baloo			earnestly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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