The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 46
Why did I not warn thee against the Monkey-Folk instead of breaking thy head?
Who acts: I · What happens: not warn, break · To what, where: thee, head
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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 warn | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warn | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 warn | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 warn | advmod |
| 5 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 warn | obj |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 Folk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Folk | det |
| 9 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Folk | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Monkey | punct |
| 11 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 warn | obl |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 breaking | mark |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 warn | advcl |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breaking | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 warn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not warn speech: warn | past · do-support | I | thee | against the Monkey Folk | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient against folk=Topic | |||
| 2 | break | gerund | I not said here | thy head | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=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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