The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 121

How’s a horse to keep his condition if he isn’t allowed to sleep.

Who acts: camel · What happens: keep, not allow, sleep, condition · To what, where: condition, camel

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camel), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 ’s	advmod
2	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ’s	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ’s	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 condition	nmod:poss
8	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 allowed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 allowed	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 allowed	aux:pass
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 allowed	advmod
13	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 keep	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 allowed	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		camel's condition	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	not allow a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		camel	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	camel not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	condition		camel		nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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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