The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 45
The monkeys never fight unless they are a hundred to one, and few in the jungle care for those odds.
Who acts: monkeys · What happens: not fight, be · To what, where: hundred, one
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 (monkeys), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkeys | det |
| 2 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fight | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 fight | advmod |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 9 hundred | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hundred | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hundred | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 fight | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hundred | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 few | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 few | cc |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fight | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 care | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 care | det |
| 17 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 care | compound |
| 18 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 few | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 odds | case |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 odds | det |
| 21 | odds | odd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 care | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fight | present | the monkeys | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | monkeys = monkey | a hundred | one | 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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