The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 44
See, O Bagheera, they never thank their teacher.
Who acts: you, tongues · What happens: see, not thank · To what, where: teacher
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, tongues), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bagheera | punct |
| 3 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 4 Bagheera | case |
| 4 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thank | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thank | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 thank | advmod |
| 8 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 10 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thank | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | of Bagheera | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not thank speech: thank | present | tongues = tongue | tongues's teacher | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=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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