The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 68
“Promise him many goats.”
Who acts: you · What happens: promise · To what, where: many goats, whisper
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 (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 Promise | punct |
| 2 | Promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Promise | obj |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goats | amod |
| 5 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Promise | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Promise | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | imperative | you not said here | many goats | whisper | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal goat=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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