The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 55
“If thou art so wise, better bring his hide to Khanhiwara, for the Government has set a hundred rupees on his life.
Who acts: you, Government · What happens: bring, set · To what, where: hide, Khanhiwara, hundred rupees, life
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, Government), 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 | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 art | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 art | nsubj |
| 4 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bring | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 wise | advmod |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 art | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 bring | advmod |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hide | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Khanhiwara | case |
| 13 | Khanhiwara | Khanhiwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 set | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Government | det |
| 17 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 set | aux |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 bring | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hundred | det |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 rupees | nummod |
| 22 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 set | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Buldeo's hide | Khanhiwara | well property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hide=Theme to khanhiwara=Destination | ||
| 2 | set in a quote | present · perfect | the Government | hundred rupees | Buldeo's life | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent rupee=Theme on life=Destination |
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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