The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 70

He may be asleep now, and even were he awake what if he would rather kill his own goats?”

Who acts: whisper · What happens: be, awake, kill · To what, where: own 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 (whisper), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asleep	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 asleep	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 awake	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 awake	cc
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 awake	advmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 awake	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 awake	nsubj
11	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asleep	parataxis
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 awake	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 kill	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kill	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 kill	aux
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	17 kill	advmod
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 awake	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 goats	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 goats	amod
20	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kill	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	whisper		now	asleep property	tree rules
2	awake	past	whisper				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
3	kill a condition, not said to happen	would	whisper	whisper's own 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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