The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 29

If I was like my captain--he can see things inside his head before the firing begins, and he shakes all over, but he knows too much to run away--if I was like him I could pull the guns.

Who acts: I, Billy, firing · What happens: be, see, begin, shake, know, run away · To what, where: things, head, much, guns

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 (I, Billy, firing), 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	_	6 captain	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 captain	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 captain	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 captain	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 captain	nmod:poss
6	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	advcl
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 captain	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 see	obj
12	inside	inside	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obl
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 begins	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 firing	det
17	firing	firing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 begins	nsubj
18	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shakes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shakes	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shakes	nsubj
22	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 begins	conj
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 over	advmod
24	over	over	ADV	_	22 shakes	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knows	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 knows	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knows	nsubj
28	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	parataxis
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 knows	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 run	mark
32	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 much	acl
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 run	advmod
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 pull	punct
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 him	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 him	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 him	cop
38	like	like	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 pull	advcl
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 pull	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 pull	aux
42	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 knows	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 guns	det
44	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pull	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I			like my captain	tree rules
2	see	can	Billy	things	Billy's head		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	begin	present	the firing				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	shake	present	firing			over property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5	know	present	firing	much			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
6	run away	to-infinitive				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I			like Billy	tree rules
8	pull	could	I	the guns			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme

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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