The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 28
“If I could do that and nothing else, you wouldn’t be needed to pull the big guns at all.
Who acts: bullocks · What happens: do, not need, pull · To what, where: that, you, big guns, all
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullocks), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nothing | cc |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 do | conj |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 nothing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 needed | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 needed | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 needed | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 needed | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 needed | aux:pass |
| 15 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 do | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pull | mark |
| 17 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 needed | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guns | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 guns | amod |
| 20 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pull | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 pull | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | could | the bullocks = bullock | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not need in a quote | would · passive | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull in a quote | to-infinitive | the big guns | all | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent gun=Theme at all=Asset |
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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