The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 158
I have told the bats to watch through the dark time.
Who acts: I · What happens: tell, watch · To what, where: bats · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bats | det |
| 5 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 watch | mark |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watch | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | I | the bats | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bat=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | time | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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