The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 97
Mowgli, I will not give thee one anna of the reward, but only a very big beating.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: not give · To what, where: one anna, thee
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 (Mowgli), 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 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mowgli | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Mowgli | conj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 give | advmod |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 anna | nummod |
| 9 | anna | anna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 reward | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reward | det |
| 12 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anna | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beating | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 beating | cc |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 beating | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 beating | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 big | advmod |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beating | amod |
| 19 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | future | Mowgli | one anna of the reward | thee | a big beating obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient anna=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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