The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 113
These buffaloes will not charge unless they wind him, and I cannot speak their language.
Who acts: buffaloes, I · What happens: not charge, not speak · To what, where: Mowgli, language · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buffaloes, I), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 buffaloes | det |
| 2 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 charge | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 charge | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 charge | advmod |
| 5 | charge | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wind | nsubj |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charge | obl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 charge | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 speak | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 speak | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 speak | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 speak | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 speak | advmod |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 charge | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 language | nmod:poss |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 speak | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 charge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not charge | future | this buffaloes | Mowgli | unless wind | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | |||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | can | I | buffaloes's language | tree rules |
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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