The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 68

With the knife, with the knife that men use, with the knife of the hunter, I will stoop down for my gift.

Who acts: men, I, my · What happens: use, stoop down, gift · To what, where: knife

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, I, my), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 knife	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stoop	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knife	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 knife	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	appos
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 use	obj
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	nsubj
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 knife	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knife	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 knife	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 knife	det
14	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hunter	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hunter	det
17	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knife	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knife	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 stoop	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 stoop	aux
21	stoop	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 stoop	compound:prt
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 gift	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 gift	nmod:poss
25	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stoop	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 stoop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	men	the knife		tree rules
2	stoop down	future	I		with the knife; for my gift	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gift		my			nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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