The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 122
Help me to herd them, Akela.”
Who acts: you, me · What happens: help, herd · To what, where: me, 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 (you, me), 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 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 herd | mark |
| 4 | herd | herd | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Help | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 herd | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Akela | punct |
| 7 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 herd | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | herd | to-infinitive | me not said here | buffaloes = buffalo | Akela obl | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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