The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 114
May I rise up and go away, or will thy servant tear me to pieces?”
Who acts: I, servant · What happens: rise up, go away, tear · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, servant), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rise | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rise | nsubj |
| 3 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rise | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 go | cc |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rise | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tear | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 tear | cc |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tear | aux |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 servant | nmod:poss |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tear | nsubj |
| 13 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rise | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tear | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 pieces | case |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tear | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 rise | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | may | I | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go away | infinitive | I not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tear | future | thy servant | me | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to piece=Result |
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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