The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 111

Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.

Who acts: Father, shoulders · What happens: be, fight, want · To what, where: barrel, room

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, shoulders), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 where	advmod
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 cramped	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 where	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 where	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 where	punct
6	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shoulders	nmod:poss
7	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Shere	flat
8	’s	's	PART	_	6 Shere	case
9	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cramped	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 forepaws	cc
11	forepaws	forepaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shoulders	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cramped	cop
13	cramped	cramped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 want	case
15	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cramped	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 room	case
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 would	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 would	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 would	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 man	case
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cramped	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 tried	cop
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 tried	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tried	nsubj
27	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 would	dep
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fight	mark
29	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tried	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 barrel	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 barrel	det
32	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fight	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cramped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Father			where property	tree rules
2	is	would · past	Shere's shoulders and forepaws			for want of room; cramped property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	Father			try property	tree rules
4	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	Father not said here		a barrel		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	want			room			nom want «state transitive»: of=patient

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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