The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 6
If he is indeed sent in the place of our son he will not run away.”
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: send, not run away · To what, where: Mowgli, place
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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 sent | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 run | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 son | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 run | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 run | advmod |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 run | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | Mowgli | the place of our son | indeed property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 2 | not run away | future | Mowgli | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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