The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 147
The Law of the Jungle lays down very clearly that any wolf may, when he marries, withdraw from the Pack he belongs to.
Who acts: Law · What happens: lay down, marry, withdraw, belong to · To what, where: Pack
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 (Law), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Law | det |
| 2 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lays | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Jungle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Jungle | det |
| 5 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Law | nmod |
| 6 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lays | advmod |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 clearly | advmod |
| 9 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 6 lays | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 may | mark |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 wolf | det |
| 12 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 may | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 lays | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marries | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 marries | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 marries | nsubj |
| 17 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lays | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 withdraw | punct |
| 19 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 marries | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Pack | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Pack | det |
| 22 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 withdraw | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 belongs | nsubj |
| 24 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Pack | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 belongs | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | present | the Law of the Jungle | clearly, down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | marry | present | Law | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | withdraw | infinitive | Law not said here | the Pack | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pack=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | belong to | present | Law | the Pack not said here | tree rules |
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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