The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 38

He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I--I have to kill for two, these days.”

Who acts: Father, I · What happens: frighten, have, kill · To what, where: head

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 (Father, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 frighten	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 frighten	aux
3	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frighten	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 game	case
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	nmod
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 miles	case
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 miles	nummod
10	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 frighten	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frighten	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 kill	mark
18	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 have	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 two	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 kill	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 days	punct
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 days	det
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kill	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 frighten	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 frighten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	future	Father	every head of game		within ten miles	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=Experiencer
2	have	present	I				tree rules
3	kill	to-infinitive	I not said here		day	for two	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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