The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 152

Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.

Who acts: Akela, colored veterans, young black year olds · What happens: lead, lay out, sit, color, handle, think · To what, where: Pack, full length, forty wolves, colored veterans, buck

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 (Akela, colored veterans, young black year olds), 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	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gray	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gray	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gray	amod
5	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Akela	appos
6	Lone	Lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Wolf	amod
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Akela	list
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 led	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 led	nsubj
10	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Akela	advcl:relcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 Pack	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Pack	det
13	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 led	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 strength	case
15	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 led	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cunning	cc
17	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 strength	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
19	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 led	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 lay	compound:prt
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 length	case
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 length	amod
23	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 rock	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 rock	nmod:poss
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 length	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sat	cc
29	below	below	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sat	obl
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lay	advcl
32	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 wolves	nummod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 more	cc
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 forty	conj
35	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sat	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 size	case
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 size	det
38	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wolves	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 color	cc
40	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 size	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 veterans	punct
42	from	from	ADP	_	46 veterans	case
43	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 colored	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 badger	punct
45	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 veterans	amod
46	veterans	veteran	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sat	obl
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 handle	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 handle	aux
49	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 veterans	acl:relcl
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 buck	det
51	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 handle	obj
52	alone	alone	ADV	_	49 handle	advmod
53	to	to	ADP	_	60 olds	case
54	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 olds	amod
55	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 olds	amod
56	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 year	nummod
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 three	punct
58	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 olds	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 year	punct
60	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 handle	obl
61	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 thought	nsubj
62	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 olds	acl:relcl
63	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 could	nsubj
64	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 thought	ccomp
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Akela	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Akela	all Pack		by strength and cunning	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pack=Theme by strength=Destination
2	lay out	present			full length on Akela's rock		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination
3	sit	past		forty wolves of every size and color	colored veterans	below Akela	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme below he=Location
4	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	handle	could	colored veterans	a buck		to young black year olds; alone property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buck=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	young black year olds				vn focus-87.1-1 «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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