The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 170
No, we will not hurt the village, for Messua was kind to me.”
Who acts: we, Messua · What happens: not hurt, be · To what, where: village, 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 (we, Messua), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 hurt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurt | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 kind | mark |
| 11 | Messua | Messua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kind | cop |
| 13 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hurt | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 kind | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | future | we | the village | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer village=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Messua | me | kind property | 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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