The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 56

Better still, talk not when thy elders speak.”

Who acts: elders · What happens: not talk, speak · 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 (elders), 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	Better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 still	advmod
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 still	punct
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 talk	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 speak	mark
7	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 elders	nmod:poss
8	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 speak	nsubj
9	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	present					still		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	present	thy elders						vn talk-37.5 «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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