The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 93

“A blow more or less is nothing to thee, Bagheera or Baloo, but I--I have to wait and wait for days in a wood-path and climb half a night on the mere chance of a young ape.

Who acts: blow, Kaa, young ape · What happens: be, have, wait, climb, chance · To what, where: nothing, wood path, mere chance

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 (blow, Kaa, young ape), 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	_	8 nothing	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blow	det
3	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	nsubj
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 blow	advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 less	cc
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 more	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 nothing	cop
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 thee	case
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 nothing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Bagheera	punct
12	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	appos
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 Baloo	cc
14	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Bagheera	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 I	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 nothing	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wait	mark
22	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wait	cc
24	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wait	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 days	case
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wait	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 path	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 path	det
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 path	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 wood	punct
31	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wait	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 climb	cc
33	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wait	conj
34	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	36 night	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 climb	obl:unmarked
37	on	on	ADP	_	40 chance	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chance	det
39	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 chance	amod
40	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 climb	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 ape	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 ape	det
43	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ape	amod
44	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 chance	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a blow	nothing			to thee	tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	Kaa					tree rules
3	wait in a quote	to-infinitive	Kaa not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait in a quote	infinitive	Kaa not said here		a wood path	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in path=Location
5	climb in a quote	present	Kaa not said here		the mere chance of a young ape	night		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chance=Trajectory
6	chance in a quote		a young ape					nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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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