The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 15
Bring me food, or give me leave to hunt here.”
Who acts: you · What happens: bring, give, leave, hunt · To what, where: food, me
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | iobj |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hunt | mark |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 leave | xcomp |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 hunt | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | food | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination food=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hunt | to-infinitive | you not said here | here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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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