The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 78
Kaa was not a poison snake--in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards--but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
Who acts: Kaa, strength, more · What happens: not be, despise, lie, have, lap, be · To what, where: poison snake, poison snakes, hug, huge coils · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kaa, strength, more), 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 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 snake | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snake | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 snake | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 5 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snake | compound |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 fact | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fact | case |
| 9 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snake | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 despised | nsubj |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 despised | advmod |
| 12 | despised | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fact | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snakes | det |
| 14 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snakes | compound |
| 15 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 despised | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 cowards | case |
| 17 | cowards | coward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 despised | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 lay | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 strength | nmod:poss |
| 21 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 despised | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hug | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hug | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lapped | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 lapped | cc |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 had | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 lapped | advcl |
| 31 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 lapped | advmod |
| 32 | lapped | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lay | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 coils | nmod:poss |
| 34 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 coils | amod |
| 35 | coils | coil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 lapped | obj |
| 36 | round | round | ADP | _ | 37 anybody | case |
| 37 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 lapped | obl |
| 38 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 was | expl |
| 39 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 lapped | parataxis |
| 40 | no | no | ADV | _ | 41 more | advmod |
| 41 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 was | nsubj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 said | mark |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 said | aux:pass |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 more | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 snake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Kaa | a poison snake and fact | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | despise | past | Kaa | the poison snakes | as cowards | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lie | past | Kaa's strength | Kaa's hug | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hug=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | past | strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lap | past | Kaa's strength not said here | Kaa's huge coils | round anybody; once property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coil=Patient | |||
| 6 | be | past | more | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | more not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 8 | hug | Kaa | nom hug «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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