The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 62
“Without thy order we cannot stir foot or hand, O Kaa!”
Who acts: we, thy · What happens: not stir, order · To what, where: foot
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 (we, thy), 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 | _ | 8 stir | punct |
| 2 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 4 order | case |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 order | nmod:poss |
| 4 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stir | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 stir | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stir | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 stir | advmod |
| 8 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stir | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 hand | cc |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 foot | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kaa | punct |
| 13 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 14 Kaa | discourse |
| 14 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stir | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 stir | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stir in a quote | can | we | foot or hand | without thy order | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | order in a quote | thy | nom order «communication 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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