The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 148

But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the Pack Council, which is generally held once a month at full moon, in order that the other wolves may identify them.

Who acts: cubs, Law, other wolves · What happens: be, stand, bring, hold, identify · To what, where: feet, cubs, Pack Council, full moon

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 (cubs, Law, other wolves), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 old	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 old	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	8 old	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cubs	nmod:poss
6	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 old	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stand	mark
11	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 old	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 feet	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feet	nmod:poss
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stand	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bring	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	aux
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stand	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bring	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 Council	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Council	det
21	Pack	Pack	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Council	compound
22	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 held	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 held	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 held	aux:pass
26	generally	generally	ADV	_	27 held	advmod
27	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Council	acl:relcl
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 held	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 month	det
30	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 once	obl:unmarked
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 moon	case
32	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 moon	amod
33	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 order	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 order	case
36	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 identify	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wolves	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 wolves	amod
40	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 identify	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 identify	aux
42	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 order	acl
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 identify	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Law's cubs				enough, old, soon property	tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive	Law's cubs not said here			cubs's feet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location
3	bring	must	Law	cubs = cub	the Pack Council			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to council=Destination
4	hold	present · passive		the Pack Council		full moon	in order; generally, once property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at moon=Location
5	identify	may	the other wolves	cubs = cub				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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