The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 82
He is a man, and none of us can look him between the eyes.”
Who acts: Khan, none · What happens: be, look · To what, where: man, Khan
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Khan, none), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 man | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 look | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 none | nmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | aux |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 look | obj |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eyes | det |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 look | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Khan | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | can | none | Khan | between the eyes | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute |
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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