The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 46

“I will go to the west wall,” Kaa whispered, “and come down swiftly with the slope of the ground in my favor.

Who acts: Kaa, my · What happens: go, whisper, come down, favor · To what, where: west wall, favor · 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 (Kaa, my), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 whispered	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
7	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wall	compound
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
11	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	nsubj
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 whispered	ccomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 slope	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 slope	det
21	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slope	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 favor	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 favor	nmod:poss
27	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	Kaa	the west wall		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial_Location
2	whisper speech: assert	past	Kaa			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come down in a quote	infinitive		my favor	with the slope of the ground; down, swiftly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in favor=Location
4	favor in a quote		my			nom favor «act 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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