The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 39

“Tell Bagheera, then, the Master Words of the Jungle that I have taught thee this day.”

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, teach, word · To what, where: Master Words, Bagheera, Jungle · 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 (you), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Bagheera	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Tell	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Words	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Words	det
8	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Words	compound
9	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Tell	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Jungle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Jungle	det
12	Jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Words	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 taught	nsubj:pass
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 taught	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 taught	aux
16	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Jungle	acl:relcl
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 taught	obj
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taught	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the Master Words of the Jungle	Bagheera	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bagheera=Recipient
2	teach speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the Jungle		day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient thou=Topic
3	word in a quote			the Jungle			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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