The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 40

I have some skill in these [he held out his hands], and if ever thou art in a trap, I may pay the debt which I owe to thee, to Bagheera, and to Baloo, here.

Who acts: I, blood · What happens: have, hold out, pay, owe · To what, where: skill, these, hands, debt, Bagheera, trap

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, blood), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 skill	det
4	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 these	case
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 skill	nmod
7	[	[	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	nsubj
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skill	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 held	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	obj
13	]	]	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 art	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 art	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 ever	mark
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 art	advmod
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 ever	nsubj
19	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 trap	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 trap	det
22	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trap	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 pay	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 pay	aux
26	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 art	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 debt	det
28	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pay	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 owe	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 owe	nsubj
31	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 debt	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 thee	case
33	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 owe	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Bagheera	punct
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 Bagheera	case
36	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 pay	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 here	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 here	cc
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 Baloo	case
40	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 here	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Baloo	punct
42	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 have	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	some skill		these; here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient
2	hold out	past	blood	blood's hands				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	pay	may	I	the debt	Bagheera	a trap		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset
4	owe	present	I	the debt			to thee goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent which=Theme to thou=Goal

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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