The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 54
“Unless and until they drop him from the branches in sport, or kill him out of idleness, I have no fear for the man-cub.
Who acts: branches, jungle · What happens: drop, kill, have · To what, where: jungle, branches, idleness, fear
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 (branches, jungle), 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 | _ | 2 Unless | punct |
| 2 | Unless | unless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 drop | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drop | nsubj |
| 6 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drop | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 branches | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 branches | det |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drop | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sport | case |
| 12 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 branches | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 kill | cc |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 drop | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 idleness | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 idleness | case |
| 19 | idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 drop | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Unless | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 fear | det |
| 24 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 cub | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cub | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cub | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 man | punct |
| 29 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fear | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Unless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop in a quote | present | branches = branch | jungle | the branches in sport | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme from branch=Destination | |||
| 2 | kill in a quote | infinitive | branches = branch not said here | jungle | idleness | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme out idleness=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the jungle = jungle | no fear | for the man cub | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=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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