The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 114
The man’s cub is ours--to kill if we choose.”
Who acts: cub, ours, we · What happens: be, kill, choose · To what, where: ours
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cub, ours, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cub | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 man | case |
| 4 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ours | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ours | cop |
| 6 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 kill | nsubj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 kill | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 choose | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 choose | nsubj |
| 12 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kill | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kill | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the man's cub | ours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | ours | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | choose a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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