The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 36
“And what may so bold a hunter kill?
What happens: bold · To what, where: hunter 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: 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 | _ | 6 bold | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bold | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 bold | obj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bold | aux |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 bold | advmod |
| 6 | bold | bold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kill | det |
| 8 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kill | compound |
| 9 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bold | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bold in a quote | may | a hunter kill | tree rules |
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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