The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 35
They may drop him if we follow too close.”
Who acts: Teacher, we · What happens: drop, follow · To what, where: Bagheera
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 (Teacher, we), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drop | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 drop | aux |
| 3 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drop | obj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 follow | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 follow | nsubj |
| 7 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drop | advcl |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 close | advmod |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 follow | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drop | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | may | Teacher | Bagheera | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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