The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 179
“Dost thou not remember the day when I gave thee thy new shoes?”
Who acts: thou, Tiger · What happens: do, not remember, give · To what, where: new shoes, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Tiger), 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 Dost | punct |
| 2 | Dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 remember | advmod |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Dost | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remember | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 gave | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shoes | amod |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dost | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not remember in a quote | infinitive | thou | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | Tiger | thy new shoes | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient shoe=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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