The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 5
“Remember he can never till now have slept on a bed.
Who acts: you, Mowgli · What happens: remember, not sleep · To what, where: bed · 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 (you, Mowgli), 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 Remember | punct |
| 2 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 slept | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 slept | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 never | fixed |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 slept | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slept | aux |
| 9 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Remember | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bed | det |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slept | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not sleep in a quote | can · perfect | Mowgli | a bed | now | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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