The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 26
“But here is Kaa to whom we owe the battle and thou owest thy life.
Who acts: Kaa, we, thou · What happens: be, owe · To what, where: battle, life
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 (Kaa, we, thou), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 here | cc |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 5 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 here | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 whom | case |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 here | obl |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 owe | nsubj |
| 9 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 whom | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 battle | det |
| 11 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 owe | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 owest | cc |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 owest | nsubj |
| 14 | owest | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | conj |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 owest | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Kaa | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | owe in a quote | present | we | the battle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | owe in a quote | present | thou | thy life | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=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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