The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 94
Thy luck and the stupidity of thy buffaloes have helped thee to this kill.
Who acts: luck · What happens: help · To what, where: 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 (luck), 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 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 luck | nmod:poss |
| 2 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 helped | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stupidity | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stupidity | det |
| 5 | stupidity | stupidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 luck | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 buffaloes | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 buffaloes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stupidity | nmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 helped | aux |
| 10 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 helped | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 kill | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 kill | det |
| 14 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 helped | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present · perfect | Thy luck and the stupidity of thy buffaloes | thee | to this kill | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary |
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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