The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 18

But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way.

Who acts: rags, Tabaqui, forest · What happens: be, go, forget, run, bite · To what, where: forest, everything, way

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 (rags, Tabaqui, forest), 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	_	4 afraid	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	obl
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 afraid	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 apt	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 apt	mark
10	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 apt	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 Tabaqui	conj
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 anyone	case
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 more	obl
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 anyone	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 jungle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jungle	det
18	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 anyone	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Tabaqui	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 apt	cop
21	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 afraid	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 apt	csubj
24	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 go	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 forgets	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 forgets	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 forgets	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 forgets	nsubj
29	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 afraid	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 afraid	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 afraid	cop
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 afraid	advmod
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 forgets	advcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 anyone	case
36	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 afraid	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 runs	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 runs	cc
39	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 forgets	conj
40	through	through	ADP	_	42 forest	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 forest	det
42	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 runs	obl
43	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 forest	acl
44	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	43 biting	obj
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 way	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 way	nmod:poss
47	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 biting	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	rags = rag				of Tabaqui; afraid property	tree rules
2	is	present	Tabaqui				apt property	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	forget	present	Tabaqui			then		tree rules
5	is	past	Tabaqui			ever	of anyone; afraid property	tree rules
6	run	present	Tabaqui not said here		the forest			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
7	bite	gerund	the forest not said here	everything	Tabaqui's way			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent everything=Patient in way=Location

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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