The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 27

Thank him according to our customs, Mowgli.”

What happens: thank, accord · To what, where: Kaa

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: 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	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Thank	obj
3	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 customs	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 according	fixed
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 customs	nmod:poss
6	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thank	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Mowgli	punct
8	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Thank	vocative
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Thank	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			Kaa			accord our customs; Mowgli vocative	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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