The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 77

Men can’t come down the cliffs, even if there were any men; and the shoals to seaward would knock a ship to splinters.

Who acts: Men, shoals · What happens: not come down, be, knock · To what, where: cliffs, men, ship, splinters

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Men, shoals), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cliffs	det
7	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 men	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	14 men	advmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 were	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 men	cop
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 men	det
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 knock	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knock	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shoals	det
18	shoals	shoal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 knock	nsubj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 seaward	case
20	seaward	seaward	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoals	nmod
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 knock	aux
22	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ship	det
24	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knock	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 splinters	case
26	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 knock	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not come down	can	Men	the cliffs		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		any men			tree rules
3	knock	would	the shoals to seaward	a ship	splinters		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ship=Theme to splinter=Destination

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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