The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 19

This time, if I have any eye-sight, they have pecked down trouble for themselves, for Baloo is no fledgling and Bagheera can, as I know, kill more than goats.”

Who acts: eyes, Baloo, I · What happens: peck down, be, know, kill · To what, where: trouble, goats

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 (eyes, Baloo, I), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pecked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pecked	aux
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 sight	det
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sight	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 eye	punct
10	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pecked	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pecked	aux
14	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 pecked	compound:prt
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pecked	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 themselves	case
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 trouble	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fledgling	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 fledgling	case
21	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fledgling	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fledgling	cop
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 fledgling	det
24	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 can	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Bagheera	cc
26	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fledgling	conj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pecked	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 know	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
31	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pecked	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kill	punct
33	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 know	conj
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	36 goats	advmod
35	than	than	ADP	_	34 more	fixed
36	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 kill	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pecked	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 pecked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	peck down	present · perfect	eyes = eye	trouble	time	for eyes = eye	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient
2	is	present	Baloo			for no fledgling and Bagheera	tree rules
3	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	kill	present	I not said here	goats			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme

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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