The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 112
If there were but ten of us we might pull him down as he lies.
Who acts: ten, we, Mowgli · What happens: be, pull down, lie · To what, where: Mowgli
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ten, we, Mowgli), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 were | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pull | advcl |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 ten | cc |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ten | nmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pull | aux |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 pull | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 lies | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lies | nsubj |
| 15 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pull | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | ten of us | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull down | might | we | Mowgli | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | Mowgli | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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