The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 141

And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!

Who acts: that · What happens: lame, kill, run off, hunt · To what, where: butcher, villagers, lairs

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 (that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 lame	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 lame	nsubj
3	lame	lame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	butcher	butcher	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 killed	aux
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lame	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 run	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 run	aux
12	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 killed	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 run	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Waingunga	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Waingunga	det
16	Waingunga	Waingunga	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 run	obl:agent
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 hunted	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 villagers	det
19	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hunted	nsubj:pass
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 hunted	advmod
21	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 run	advcl
22	through	through	ADP	_	25 lairs	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 lairs	det:predet
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lairs	nmod:poss
25	lairs	lair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hunted	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 revenge	case
27	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lairs	nmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 lame	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lame	present	that			tree rules
2	kill	would · perfect · passive		butcher		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result
3	run off	would · perfect				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hunt	participle · passive		the villagers	our lairs in revenge; here	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme through lair=Location

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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