The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 5

If he had not found what he wanted, I believe he would have been ill.

Who acts: Little, I · What happens: not find, want, believe, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 found	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 believe	advcl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 found	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 believe	nsubj
11	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ill	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ill	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 ill	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 ill	cop
16	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 believe	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not find a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Little		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	want	past	Little		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	believe	present	I		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	would · perfect	Little	ill 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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