The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 28

When I come down here again, I will wait for thee in the bamboos at the edge of the grazing-ground.”

Who acts: I · What happens: come down, wait · To what, where: bamboos

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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	advcl
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 come	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wait	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	aux
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 thee	case
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 wait	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bamboos	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bamboos	det
15	bamboos	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wait	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 edge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 edge	det
18	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wait	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
21	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ground	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 grazing	punct
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 edge	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wait	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	present	I			here	again	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	future	I			the bamboos		for thee; at the edge of the grazing ground	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bamboo=Location

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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