The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 142

“Yes; but a plainsman who lives in a hut knows only the four walls of his hut.

Who acts: plainsman · What happens: live, know · To what, where: hut, four walls

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plainsman), 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	_	12 knows	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 plainsman	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 plainsman	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plainsman	det
6	plainsman	plainsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knows	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plainsman	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hut	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hut	det
11	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 walls	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 walls	det
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 walls	nummod
16	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knows	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 hut	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hut	nmod:poss
19	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walls	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	a plainsman			a hut			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location
2	know in a quote	present	a plainsman	the four walls of plainsman's hut					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wall=Stimulus

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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