The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 171

Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.

Who acts: Law, Pack, two members · What happens: lay down, be, accept, speak, not be · To what, where: dispute, father · 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 (Law, Pack, two members), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lays	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Law	det
4	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lays	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Jungle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Jungle	det
7	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Law	nmod
8	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 lays	compound:prt
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 right	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 is	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 dispute	det
15	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 right	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 right	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 right	det
19	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lays	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 cub	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cub	det
22	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 right	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	25 accepted	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 accepted	aux:pass
25	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 right	parataxis
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 Pack	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Pack	det
28	Pack	Pack	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 accepted	obl:agent
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 spoken	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 spoken	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 spoken	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 spoken	aux:pass
33	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lays	parataxis
34	for	for	ADP	_	33 spoken	obl
35	by	by	ADP	_	39 members	case
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 least	case
37	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 two	nmod
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 members	nummod
39	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 spoken	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 Pack	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Pack	det
42	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 members	nmod
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 father	nsubj
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 father	cop
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 father	advmod
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 father	nmod:poss
47	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 members	acl:relcl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 mother	cc
49	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 father	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lays	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	present	the Law of the Jungle		now		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				as the right; of a cub	tree rules
3	accept	to-infinitive · passive	the Pack				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other	must · passive	two members of the Pack	dispute			tree rules
5	not is a	present	two members of the Pack	dispute's father and mother			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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