The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 170

There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan’s question to Akela: “What have the Free People to do with a man’s cub?”

Who acts: chorus, Akela, Shere · What happens: be, fling back, have, do, chorus, question · To what, where: young wolf, Free People, deep growls · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (chorus, Akela, Shere), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chorus	det
4	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 growls	case
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 growls	amod
7	growls	growl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chorus	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flung	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flung	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wolf	amod
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flung	nsubj:pass
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 year	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 year	nmod:poss
15	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 year	amod
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wolf	nmod
17	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	advcl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 flung	advmod
19	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 question	nmod:poss
20	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Shere	flat
21	’s	's	PART	_	19 Shere	case
22	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flung	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Akela	case
24	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 flung	obl:agent
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
27	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 have	obj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 People	det
30	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 People	amod
31	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 have	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	advcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	38 cub	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cub	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 man	case
38	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a chorus of deep growls		there		tree rules
2	fling back	participle · passive	Akela	a young wolf in chorus's fourth year			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination question=Theme
3	have in a quote	present		the Free People			tree rules
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive				with a man's cub	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	chorus			deep growls			nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient
6	question		Shere				nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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