The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 138

“It is in my head that, if bullets mean anything, they would cast thee out.”

Who acts: musket, that, bullets · What happens: be, mean, cast out · To what, where: head, anything, thee

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (musket, that, bullets), 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 head	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 head	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 head	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 mean	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 mean	mark
10	bullets	bullet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mean	nsubj
11	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 head	parataxis
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 mean	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cast	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cast	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 cast	aux
16	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mean	conj
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 cast	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	16 cast	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	musket		my head	tree rules
2	mean a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	that	anything		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	cast out in a quote	would	bullets = bullet	thee		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product

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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