The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 169
Let us get Shere Khan’s skin and go away.
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, get, go away · To what, where: us, skin
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, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 skin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Shere | flat |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Shere | case |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | us not said here | Shere's skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go away | infinitive | us not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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