The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 3
Let him think and be still.
Who acts: you, Brother · What happens: let, think, be · To what, where: Brother
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, Brother), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 still | cc |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 still | cop |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 think | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | Brother not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | Brother not said here | still property | 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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