The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 35

“Now as you are a new listener and can carry our words back to the Jungle-People so that they may notice us in future, we will tell you all about our most excellent selves.”

Who acts: you, People, we, our · What happens: be, carry back, notice, tell, word · To what, where: new listener, words, Jungle People, us, future, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, People, we, our), 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	_	11 carry	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 carry	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 listener	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 listener	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 listener	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 listener	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 listener	amod
8	listener	listener	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Now	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carry	cc
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	aux
11	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 words	nmod:poss
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carry	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	11 carry	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 People	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 People	det
17	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 People	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Jungle	punct
19	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carry	obl
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 notice	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 notice	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 notice	aux
24	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 carry	advcl
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 notice	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 future	case
27	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 notice	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tell	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	aux
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 notice	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 you	nmod:unmarked
34	about	about	ADP	_	38 selves	case
35	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 selves	nmod:poss
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 excellent	advmod
37	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 selves	amod
38	selves	self	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tell	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 carry	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you	a new listener					tree rules
2	carry back in a quote	can		our words	the Jungle People		now		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to people=Destination
3	notice in a quote	may	People	us		future			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	we		you			about our excellent selves	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about self=Topic
5	word in a quote		our						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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