The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 99
“He is altogether without hair, and I could kill him with a touch of my foot.
Who acts: thing, Father Wolf · What happens: be, kill, touch · To what, where: thing, foot
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 (thing, Father Wolf), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hair | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hair | cop |
| 4 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 6 hair | advmod |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 hair | case |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kill | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | aux |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hair | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 touch | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 touch | det |
| 15 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 foot | nmod:poss |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touch | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | thing | without hair; altogether property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | could | Father Wolf = wolf | thing | with a touch of my foot | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with touch=Instrument | |||
| 3 | touch in a quote | my foot | nom touch «event transitive»: of=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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