The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 93
The fighting strength of a python is in the driving blow of his head backed by all the strength and weight of his body.
Who acts: fighting strength · What happens: drive, be, back · To what, where: driving blow
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 (fighting strength), 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 | 3 strength | det |
| 2 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strength | compound |
| 3 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 python | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 python | det |
| 6 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strength | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 blow | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 blow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blow | det |
| 10 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 blow | amod |
| 11 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | nmod |
| 15 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 blow | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 strength | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 strength | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 strength | det |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 backed | obl:agent |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 weight | cc |
| 21 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strength | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 body | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 body | nmod:poss |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 weight | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | gerund | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the fighting strength of a python | the driving blow | of Kaa's head | tree rules | |||
| 3 | back | participle | the driving blow not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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