The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 99
It is certain that I must die, and my life is of no worth, or I would offer that in the man-cub’s place.
Who acts: child, I, life · What happens: be, die, offer
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 (child, I, life), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 certain | cop |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 die | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | aux |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 certain | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 worth | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 worth | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 worth | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 worth | cop |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 worth | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 worth | det |
| 15 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 certain | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 offer | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 offer | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 offer | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 offer | aux |
| 20 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 certain | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 place | mark |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 cub | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cub | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cub | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 26 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 place | compound |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 cub | case |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offer | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | child | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | must | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | present | my life | of no worth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | offer | would | I | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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