The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 44
He did not know much of white men, but Petersen Sahib was the greatest white man in the world to him.
Who acts: Toomai, Petersen · What happens: not know, be · To what, where: much, greatest white man, Toomai, world
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 (Toomai, Petersen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 much | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 man | cc |
| 11 | Petersen | Petersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nsubj |
| 12 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Petersen | flat |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 15 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 man | amod |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 man | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Toomai | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Petersen | the greatest white man | Toomai | the world | 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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