The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 151

“Come back, or we will stone thee.”

Who acts: you, we · What happens: come back, stone

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, 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stone	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 stone	cc
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stone	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stone	aux
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
9	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 stone	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stone in a quote	future	we						tree rules

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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