The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 24

“What was the use of half slaying him with blows if thou didst not warn him?”

Who acts: use, thou · What happens: be, slay, not warn · To what, where: use, Bagheera

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 (use, thou), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 use	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 half	case
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 use	nmod
8	slaying	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 use	acl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slaying	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 blows	case
11	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slaying	obl
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 warn	mark
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 warn	nsubj
14	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 warn	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 warn	advmod
16	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 slaying	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 warn	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		the use		of half	tree rules
2	slay in a quote	gerund	the use not said here	Bagheera		with blows	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with blow=Instrument
3	not warn speech: warn a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · do-support	thou		Bagheera		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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