The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 96
Thou canst not even skin him properly, little beggar brat, and forsooth I, Buldeo, must be told not to singe his whiskers.
Who acts: I · What happens: tell, not singe · To what, where: I, whiskers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 skin | nsubj |
| 2 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 skin | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 skin | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 skin | advmod |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 skin | obj |
| 7 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 5 skin | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brat | punct |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brat | amod |
| 10 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brat | compound |
| 11 | brat | brat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forsooth | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forsooth | cc |
| 14 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brat | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 told | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Buldeo | punct |
| 17 | Buldeo | Buldeo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 I | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 I | punct |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 told | aux:pass |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 forsooth | parataxis |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 singe | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 singe | mark |
| 24 | singe | singe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 told | xcomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 singe | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | must · passive | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not singe not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | stupidity's whiskers | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whisker=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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