The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 59

Now, if I had a full meal for every dog I’ve kicked across the parade-ground I should be as fat as Two Tails nearly.”

Who acts: I · What happens: kick, be · To what, where: I, parade ground

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 kicked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kicked	aux
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meal	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meal	amod
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 dog	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meal	nmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 kicked	nsubj
13	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kicked	aux:pass
14	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	across	across	ADP	_	19 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
17	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ground	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 parade	punct
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kicked	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 fat	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fat	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 fat	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 fat	advmod
24	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kicked	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 Tails	case
26	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 Tails	nummod
27	Tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fat	obl
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 kicked	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 kicked	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 kicked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past · passive		I		the parade ground	now	nearly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
2	is	should	I					as Two Tails; fat property	tree rules

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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