The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 38
“I kill nothing,--I am too little,--but I drive goats toward such as can use them.
Who acts: thanks · What happens: kill, be, drive, use · To what, where: nothing, goats
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 (thanks), 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 kill | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 kill | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 little | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 little | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 little | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 little | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 little | advmod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kill | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drive | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 drive | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 drive | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 drive | nsubj |
| 15 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | parataxis |
| 16 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drive | obj |
| 17 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 21 use | mark |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 use | mark |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 such | fixed |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 use | aux |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 drive | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 use | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present | all thanks = thanks | nothing | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | all thanks = thanks | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drive in a quote | present | all thanks = thanks | goats | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | use in a quote | can | all thanks = thanks not said here | goats = goat | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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