The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 22

But I must try to return to my own jungle.

Who acts: I · What happens: try, return

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 try	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 return	mark
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 jungle	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 jungle	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 jungle	amod
10	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	must	I						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here					to my own jungle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to jungle=Result

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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