The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 22
Men will not make thee forget?” said Gray Brother anxiously.
Who acts: Men, thee, Gray Brother · What happens: not make, not forget, say · To what, where: thee · 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 (Men, thee, Gray Brother), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 forget | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 10 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brother | amod |
| 11 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | future | Men | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not forget | infinitive | thee not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Gray Brother | anxiously property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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