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title: A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know. Who acts: python, Kaa, you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 95

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A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know.

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**Who acts:** python, Kaa, you · **What happens:** knock down, hit, be, know · **To what, where:** man, Kaa, chest

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (python, Kaa, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg236:6:95
# text = A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock down** | can | a python | a man |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 2 | **hit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | python | Kaa |  | the chest |  | fairly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in chest=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | Kaa |  |  |  |  | thirty feet *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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