The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 50
It means life or death to your man, and of course that’s life and death to you.
Who acts: rein · What happens: mean · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rein), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 death | cc |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 life | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 man | nmod:poss |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 course | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 course | cc |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 course | case |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 ’s | nsubj |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 course | acl:relcl |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ’s | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 death | cc |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ’s | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | rein | life or death | to your man | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot life=Theme to man=Attribute |
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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