The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 31
“Well, look to it then that thou dost not kill the man-cub.
Who acts: you, that · What happens: look, not kill · To what, where: beating, man cub
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, that), 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 | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 look | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | obl |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 kill | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 kill | nsubj |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 kill | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 kill | advmod |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 look | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cub | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cub | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 16 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kill | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | beating | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not kill in a quote | present · do-support | that | the man cub | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=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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