The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 149

After that inspection the cubs are free to run where they please, and until they have killed their first buck no excuse is accepted if a grown wolf of the Pack kills one of them.

Who acts: cubs, grown wolf · What happens: be, run, kill, accept, grow · To what, where: cubs, first buck, one

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, grown 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 inspection	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 inspection	det
3	inspection	inspection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 free	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cubs	det
5	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 free	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 free	cop
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 run	mark
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 free	advcl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 run	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 where	nsubj
12	please	please	INTJ	_	10 where	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 killed	cc
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 killed	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 killed	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 killed	aux
18	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 free	parataxis
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 buck	nmod:poss
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 buck	amod
21	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 accepted	nsubj:pass
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 excuse	det
23	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 accepted	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 accepted	aux:pass
25	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 killed	parataxis
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 kills	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wolf	det
28	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 wolf	amod
29	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kills	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Pack	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Pack	det
32	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wolf	nmod
33	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 accepted	advcl
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 kills	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 one	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 free	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cubs		after that inspection	free property	tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive	the cubs not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill	present · perfect · passive		cubs = cub			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	accept	present · passive		cubs's first buck			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	kill a condition, not said to happen	present	a grown wolf of the Pack	one of cubs			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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