The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 75

“Never more will I make an ally of Kaa,” and he shook himself all over.

Who acts: Whoof · What happens: make, shake · To what, where: ally, Whoof

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 (Whoof), 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	_	6 make	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 make	advmod
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ally	det
8	ally	ally	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Kaa	case
10	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ally	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shook	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shook	nsubj
15	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 shook	obj
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 over	advmod
18	over	over	ADV	_	15 shook	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	future	Whoof	a ally of Kaa					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Product
2	shake	past	Whoof	Whoof				over property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=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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