The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 42
If it were only a big enough cloud I might try to run away in the darkness.
Who acts: cloud, I · What happens: be, try, run away · To what, where: big enough cloud, darkness
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 (cloud, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 cloud | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cloud | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cloud | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 cloud | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cloud | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cloud | amod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cloud | amod |
| 8 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 try | advcl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 try | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 try | aux |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 run | mark |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 try | xcomp |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 run | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 darkness | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 darkness | det |
| 17 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | cloud | a big enough cloud | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | might | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the darkness | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory |
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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