The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 121
“Now we must hide this and take the buffaloes home!
Who acts: we · What happens: hide, take · To what, where: this, buffaloes
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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 hide | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 hide | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | aux |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hide | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hide | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 buffaloes | det |
| 10 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 take | advmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide in a quote | must | we | this | now | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | the buffaloes | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=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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