The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 95

A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know.

Who acts: python, Kaa, you · What happens: knock down, hit, be, know · To what, where: man, Kaa, chest

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 (python, Kaa, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 python	det
2	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knock	nsubj
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 feet	nummod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 five	cc
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	conj
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 long	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 python	amod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 knock	aux
9	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knock	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	9 knock	compound:prt
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 hits	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hits	nsubj
15	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 knock	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hits	obj
17	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	15 hits	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 chest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 chest	det
20	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hits	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 long	cc
23	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 long	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 long	cop
25	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 feet	nummod
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 long	obl:unmarked
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knock	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 know	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
31	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 long	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 knock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock down	can	a python	a man			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	hit a condition, not said to happen	present	python	Kaa	the chest	fairly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in chest=Destination
3	is	past	Kaa			thirty feet obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
4	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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