The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 80

“So long as he is away do thou or one of the four brothers sit on that rock, so that I can see thee as I come out of the village.

Who acts: Mowgli, one · What happens: be, sit, see, come out · To what, where: rock, thee

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, one), 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	_	16 sit	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 one	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 away	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 away	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 away	cop
7	away	away	ADV	_	3 long	advcl
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	aux
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 one	nsubj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sit	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 brothers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 brothers	det
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 brothers	nummod
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
16	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 rock	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 rock	det
19	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sit	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 see	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sit	conj
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 see	obj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 come	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
29	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 see	advcl
30	out	out	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 village	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 village	det
33	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Mowgli			away property	tree rules
2	sit in a quote	present	one of the four brothers		that rock		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
3	see in a quote	can	Mowgli	thee			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
4	come out in a quote	present	Mowgli			of the village; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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