The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 4
No six men could have divided the herd so neatly.
Who acts: six men · What happens: divide · To what, where: herd
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 (six men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:999): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 men | det |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 divided | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 divided | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 divided | aux |
| 6 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 herd | det |
| 8 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divided | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 neatly | advmod |
| 10 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 6 divided | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | could · perfect | no six men | the herd | neatly property | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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