The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 69
“Keep it there, or I must go back--must go back to Kaa.
Who acts: you, Bagheera · What happens: keep, go back · To what, where: shoulder
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 (you, Bagheera), 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 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Keep | obj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Keep | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Keep | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Keep | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Kaa | case |
| 16 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 back | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | imperative | you not said here | shoulder | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | go back in a quote | must | Bagheera | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go back in a quote | must | you not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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