The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 16

All the same he would have scorned to look at or touch one of his wounds.

Who acts: Kotick · What happens: scorn, look, touch, wound · To what, where: one

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 (Kotick), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 same	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scorned	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 scorned	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 scorned	aux
7	scorned	scorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 same	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 scorned	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	9 look	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 touch	cc
12	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 look	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 touch	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wounds	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wounds	nmod:poss
16	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	scorn	would · perfect	Kotick		tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	Kotick not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	touch	infinitive	Kotick not said here	one of Kotick's wounds	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme
4	wound		Kotick		nom wound «state 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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