The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 32
He is no tree trunk to sharpen thy blunt claws upon.
Who acts: face · What happens: be, sharpen · To what, where: tree trunk, blunt claws
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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 | 5 trunk | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trunk | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 trunk | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trunk | compound |
| 5 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sharpen | mark |
| 7 | sharpen | sharpen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trunk | acl |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 claws | nmod:poss |
| 9 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 claws | amod |
| 10 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sharpen | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 sharpen | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | face | no tree trunk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sharpen | to-infinitive | thy blunt claws | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent claw=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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