The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 65
I will kill the big man and his wife, and the child if I can, and come away quietly.
Who acts: I · What happens: kill, come away · To what, where: big man
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | aux |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kill | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 child | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 child | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kill | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 can | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kill | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | future | I | the big man and man's wife | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come away | infinitive | I not said here | away, quietly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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