The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 129

But a man-thing in their hands is in no good luck.

Who acts: man thing · What happens: be · To what, where: good luck

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man thing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 luck	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 luck	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thing	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 luck	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 luck	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 luck	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 luck	amod
13	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 luck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a man thing in Chattering's hands			no good luck			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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