The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 129

Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death.

Who acts: Father · What happens: face, not stand up, know, be, fight · To what, where: Shere, Mother Wolf · 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), 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	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 faced	nsubj:pass
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Shere	flat
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 faced	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 faced	aux
5	faced	face	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Wolf	compound
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 faced	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stand	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 stand	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stand	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stand	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 stand	advmod
13	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 faced	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 stand	compound:prt
15	against	against	ADP	_	17 Wolf	case
16	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Wolf	compound
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stand	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 knew	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stand	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 had	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	cop
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 knew	ccomp
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 advantage	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 advantage	det
30	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 advantage	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fight	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fight	cc
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 fight	aux
37	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 faced	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 death	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 death	det
40	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fight	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 faced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	face	might · perfect · passive		Shere			tree rules
2	not stand up	could	Father		Mother Wolf		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wolf=Location
3	know	past	Father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	is	past	Father			have property	tree rules
5	fight	would				to the death	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.

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