The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 80

I did not know of a man among the plains-drivers who had wit enough to rope even a dead elephant.”

Who acts: I, plains · What happens: not know, wit · To what, where: dead elephant

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 (I, plains), 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	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 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	of	of	ADP	_	7 man	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obl
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 plains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plains	det
10	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	obl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 drivers	punct
12	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plains	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 wit	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wit	aux
15	wit	wit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 plains	acl:relcl
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 wit	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rope	mark
18	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wit	advcl
19	even	even	ADV	_	22 elephant	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 elephant	det
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 elephant	amod
22	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wit	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	I					of a man; among the plains and drivers	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus
2	wit	past · perfect	the plains and drivers	a dead elephant				enough property	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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