The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 82
“If I don’t break his back at the first jump,” said Rikki, “he can still fight.
Who acts: Rikki, tikki · What happens: break, say, fight · To what, where: back, first jump · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rikki, tikki), 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 break | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 break | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 break | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 jump | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jump | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 jump | amod |
| 12 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 break | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fight | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 fight | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fight | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fight | aux |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 fight | advmod |
| 22 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | present · do-support | tikki's back | the first jump | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rikki | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | can | tikki | still | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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