The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 94

If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.

Who acts: you, hammer, cool quiet mind, Kaa · What happens: imagine, batter, weigh, drive, live, fight · To what, where: lance, ton, handle

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 (you, hammer, cool quiet mind, Kaa), 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	_	4 imagine	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 imagine	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 imagine	aux
4	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 imagine	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lance	det
6	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imagine	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ram	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 ram	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ram	det
10	battering	batter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 ram	amod
11	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imagine	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hammer	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 hammer	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hammer	det
15	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ram	appos
16	weighing	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 hammer	acl
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 half	advmod
18	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	20 ton	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ton	det
20	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weighing	obj
21	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 ton	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	27 mind	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mind	det
24	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mind	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cool	punct
26	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mind	amod
27	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 driven	obl
28	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 mind	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 handle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 handle	det
31	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 living	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 handle	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 imagine	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 imagine	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 imagine	aux
37	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	38 imagine	advmod
38	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 imagine	obj
40	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 what	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 what	acl:relcl
42	like	like	SCONJ	_	45 fought	mark
43	when	when	SCONJ	_	45 fought	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 fought	nsubj
45	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 was	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine a condition, not said to happen	can	you	a lance			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lance=Theme
2	batter	gerund					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	weigh	gerund	a hammer not said here	half ton			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value
4	drive	participle		half ton not said here		by a cool quiet mind	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	live	gerund	a cool quiet mind not said here		the handle of handle		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in handle=Location
6	imagine	can	you			roughly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
7	fight	past	Kaa				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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