--- title: If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought. Who acts: you, hammer, cool quiet mind, Kaa. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hammer, cool quiet mind, Kaa), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:6:94 # text = If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lance lance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 battering batter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 weighing weigh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 20 det:predet _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ton ton NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 obj _ _ 40 Kaa Kaa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 like like SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 when when SCONJ WRB _ 45 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | a lance | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lance=Theme | | 2 | **batter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **weigh** | gerund | a hammer *not said here* | half ton | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value | | 4 | **drive** | participle | | half ton *not said here* | | | | by a cool quiet mind | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **live** | gerund | a cool quiet mind *not said here* | | | the handle of handle | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in handle=Location | | 6 | **imagine** | can | you | | | | | roughly *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 7 | **fight** | past | Kaa | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/95/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/)