The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 70
“Now, if I kill him here, Nagaina will know; and if I fight him on the open floor, the odds are in his favor.
Who acts: Nag, Nagaina, odds · What happens: kill, know, fight, be · To what, where: Nag, open floor, favor
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 (Nag, Nagaina, odds), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 kill | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 kill | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | obj |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 kill | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kill | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fight | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fight | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 fight | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fight | nsubj |
| 17 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kill | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fight | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 floor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 floor | det |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 floor | amod |
| 22 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fight | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 favor | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 odds | det |
| 25 | odds | odd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 favor | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 favor | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 favor | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 favor | nmod:poss |
| 29 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fight | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present | Nag | Nag | here | now | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | know in a quote | future | Nagaina | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | fight a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Nag | Nag | the open floor | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the odds | Nag's favor | tree rules |
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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