The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 75

Mowgli would laugh and answer: “I have the Pack and I have thee; and Baloo, though he is so lazy, might strike a blow or two for my sake.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: laugh, answer, have, be, strike · To what, where: Pack, thee, blow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli), 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	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 answer	cc
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laugh	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pack	det
11	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	conj
15	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 have	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Baloo	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Baloo	cc
18	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lazy	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 lazy	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lazy	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lazy	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 lazy	advmod
24	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laugh	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 strike	punct
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 strike	aux
27	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 lazy	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 blow	det
29	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 strike	obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 two	cc
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 blow	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 sake	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sake	nmod:poss
34	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 strike	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	would	Mowgli			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	infinitive	Mowgli not said here			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	present	Mowgli	the Pack		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Patient
4	have in a quote	present	Mowgli	thee		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
5	is in a quote	present	Mowgli		lazy property	tree rules
6	strike in a quote	might		a blow	for my sake	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient

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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