The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 34
My kill shall be thy kill if ever thou art hungry, O Kaa.”
Who acts: kill, My · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: kill
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 (kill, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 kill | nmod:poss |
| 2 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 kill | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kill | cop |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 kill | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 art | mark |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 art | advmod |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 art | nsubj |
| 10 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kill | advcl |
| 11 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 art | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kaa | punct |
| 13 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kaa | compound |
| 14 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kaa | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | My kill | thy kill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | My | nom kill «act transitive»: poss=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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