The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 87
They do not hit me with their hard paws.
Who acts: cubs · What happens: not hit · To what, where: me
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 (cubs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hit | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hit | advmod |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hit | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 paws | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 paws | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paws | amod |
| 9 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hit | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hit | present · do-support | cubs = cub | me | with cubs's hard paws | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with paw=Instrument |
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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