The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 141
The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of foot--snake’s blow against mongoose’s jump--and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake’s head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb.
Who acts: victory, eye, this, snake, mongoose, head · What happens: be, follow, strike, make, blow, jump · To what, where: matter, motion, things
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (victory, eye, this, snake), 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 victory | det |
| 2 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 matter | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 matter | det |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 quickness | case |
| 8 | quickness | quickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 eye | case |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quickness | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 quickness | cc |
| 12 | quickness | quickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quickness | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 quickness | nmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 blow | punct |
| 16 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 snake | case |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quickness | conj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 jump | case |
| 20 | mongoose | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jump | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 mongoose | case |
| 22 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blow | nmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 follow | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 follow | cc |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 follow | mark |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 eye | det |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 follow | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 follow | aux |
| 29 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 matter | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 motion | det |
| 31 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 follow | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 head | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 snake | det |
| 34 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 snake | case |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 motion | nmod |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 strikes | advmod |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 strikes | nsubj |
| 39 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 follow | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 makes | punct |
| 41 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 makes | nsubj |
| 42 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 strikes | conj |
| 43 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 makes | obj |
| 44 | much | much | ADV | _ | 45 more | advmod |
| 45 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 46 wonderful | advmod |
| 46 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 makes | xcomp |
| 47 | than | than | ADP | _ | 50 herb | case |
| 48 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 50 herb | det |
| 49 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 herb | amod |
| 50 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 wonderful | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the victory | a matter | of quickness of eye and quickness of foot and snake's blow against mongoose's jump | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | can | no eye | the motion of a snake's head | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | present | victory | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | present | this | things | wonderful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | |||
| 5 | blow | snake | against mongoose's jump | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent against=obl | |||||
| 6 | jump | mongoose | nom jump «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | motion | a snake's head | nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=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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