The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 174

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.”

Who acts: I, man · What happens: be, become · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	13 become	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 man	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 become	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 become	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 become	aux
13	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 become	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	I	a man and a man					tree rules
2	become	must	a man and a man						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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