The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 5

I know just enough to be uncomfortable, and not enough to go on in spite of it.”

Who acts: I · What happens: know, be, go on, spite · To what, where: spite

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 enough	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 know	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 uncomfortable	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 uncomfortable	cop
7	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 enough	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 enough	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 enough	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 enough	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 enough	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 go	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 spite	case
16	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spite	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			enough property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	to-infinitive	I not said here			uncomfortable property	tree rules
3	go on	to-infinitive	I not said here		spite of spite		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
4	spite			spite			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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