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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

nsubjcopadvmoddetcompoundpunctcaseconjnsubjadvmodacl:relcldetcompoundobjcaseoblpunctccnmod:possnsubjparataxiscasenmod:possoblpunctccadvmodnsubjadvcladvmodconjnmod:possamodobjcaseoblexplparataxisadvmodnsubjmarkaux:passadvclpunctrootKaaPROPNwasAUXnotPARTaDETpoisonNOUNsnakeNOUN--PUNCTinADPfactNOUNhePRONratherADVdespisedVERBtheDETpoisonNOUNsnakesNOUNasADPcowardsNOUN--PUNCTbutCCONJhisPRONstrengthNOUNlayVERBinADPhisPRONhugNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONhadVERBonceADVlappedVERBhisPRONhugeADJcoilsNOUNroundADPanybodyPRONtherePRONwasVERBnoADVmoreADJtoPARTbeAUXsaidVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1KaaKaaPROPNNumber=Sing6 snakensubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 snakecop
3notnotPARTPolarity=Neg6 snakeadvmod
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 snakedet
5poisonpoisonNOUNNumber=Sing6 snakecompound
6snakesnakeNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
7----PUNCT_9 factpunct
8ininADP_9 factcase
9factfactNOUNNumber=Sing6 snakeconj
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 despisednsubj
11ratherratherADV_12 despisedadvmod
12despiseddespiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 factacl:relcl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 snakesdet
14poisonpoisonNOUNNumber=Sing15 snakescompound
15snakessnakeNOUNNumber=Plur12 despisedobj
16asasADP_17 cowardscase
17cowardscowardNOUNNumber=Plur12 despisedobl
18----PUNCT_22 laypunct
19butbutCCONJ_22 laycc
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 strengthnmod:poss
21strengthstrengthNOUNNumber=Sing22 laynsubj
22laylieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 despisedparataxis
23ininADP_25 hugcase
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 hugnmod:poss
25hughugNOUNNumber=Sing22 layobl
26,,PUNCT_32 lappedpunct
27andandCCONJ_32 lappedcc
28whenwhenADVPronType=Int30 hadadvmod
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 hadnsubj
30hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 lappedadvcl
31onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult32 lappedadvmod
32lappedlapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 layconj
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 coilsnmod:poss
34hugehugeADJDegree=Pos35 coilsamod
35coilscoilNOUNNumber=Plur32 lappedobj
36roundroundADP_37 anybodycase
37anybodyanybodyPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind32 lappedobl
38theretherePRONPronType=Dem39 wasexpl
39wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 lappedparataxis
40nonoADV_41 moreadvmod
41moremoreADJDegree=Cmp39 wasnsubj
42totoPART_44 saidmark
43bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf44 saidaux:pass
44saidsayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass41 moreadvcl
45..PUNCT_6 snakepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not is apastKaaa poison snake and facttree rules
2despisepastKaathe poison snakesas cowardsvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus
3liepastKaa's strengthKaa's hugvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hug=Location
4havepaststrengthvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5lappastKaa's strength not said hereKaa's huge coilsround anybody; once propertyvn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coil=Patient
6bepastmoretherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7say speech: assertto-infinitive · passivemore not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»
8hugKaanom 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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