The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 21
So if I am starved or killed here, it will be all my own fault.
Who acts: Law · What happens: starve, kill, be · To what, where: I, own fault
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Law), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 16 fault | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 starved | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 starved | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 starved | aux:pass |
| 5 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fault | advcl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 killed | cc |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 starved | conj |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 killed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 starved | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fault | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fault | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fault | cop |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 fault | det:predet |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fault | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fault | amod |
| 16 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill | participle | here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | future | Law | my own fault | tree rules |
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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