The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 128
He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment’s sake.
Who acts: Father, Wolf · What happens: forget, win, run, not call · To what, where: Mother Wolf, fair fight, Pack, Demon · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Wolf), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 forgotten | advmod |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forgotten | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 won | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 won | nsubj |
| 9 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | advcl |
| 10 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wolf | compound |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 won | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fight | case |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fight | amod |
| 14 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 won | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 wolves | case |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 wolves | nummod |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wolves | amod |
| 18 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 won | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 ran | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Pack | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Pack | det |
| 25 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 called | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 called | aux:pass |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 called | advmod |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ran | conj |
| 30 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Demon | det |
| 31 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 called | xcomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 sake | case |
| 33 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sake | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 compliment | case |
| 35 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 called | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | Father | day | almost property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | win | past | Father | Mother Wolf | fair fight | from five other wolves | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme from wolf=Source | ||
| 3 | run | past | Wolf | the Pack | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pack=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | not call | past · passive | Wolf not said here | the Demon | for compliment's sake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: for sake=Recipient |
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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