The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 37
I ask that I may follow when next he goes abroad.”
Who acts: I, thanks · What happens: ask, follow, go
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 (I, thanks), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 follow | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 follow | aux |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 goes | mark |
| 8 | next | next | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 follow | advcl |
| 11 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | follow not said to happen | may | I | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | present | thanks | abroad, next property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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