The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 85

Well, well, we will overlook thy letting the herd run off, and perhaps I will give thee one of the rupees of the reward when I have taken the skin to Khanhiwara.”

Who acts: we, thy, herd, I · What happens: overlook, let, run off, give, take · To what, where: herd, one, thee, skin, Khanhiwara

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, thy, herd, I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 overlook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	well	well	INTJ	_	7 overlook	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 overlook	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 overlook	aux
7	overlook	overlook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 letting	nsubj
9	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 overlook	csubj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 herd	det
11	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 letting	obj
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 letting	xcomp
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 run	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 give	cc
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 give	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 overlook	conj
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 give	iobj
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 give	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 rupees	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rupees	det
24	rupees	rupee	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 reward	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 reward	det
27	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rupees	nmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 taken	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 taken	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 taken	aux
31	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 give	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 skin	det
33	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taken	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 Khanhiwara	case
35	Khanhiwara	Khanhiwara	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 taken	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 overlook	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 overlook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	overlook	future	we				vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	let	gerund	thy	the herd			tree rules
3	run off	infinitive	the herd not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	future	I	one of the rupees of the reward	thee	perhaps property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient one=Theme
5	take	present · perfect	I	the skin	Khanhiwara		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent skin=Theme to khanhiwara=Destination

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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