The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 37

Father Wolf began angrily--“By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning.

Who acts: Father · What happens: begin, have, change · To what, where: right, quarters

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 (Father), 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
7	By	by	ADP	_	9 Law	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Law	det
9	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 has	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Jungle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Jungle	det
12	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Law	nmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 right	det
16	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 change	mark
18	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 right	acl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 quarters	nmod:poss
20	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 change	obj
21	without	without	ADP	_	23 warning	case
22	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 warning	amod
23	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 change	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Father		angrily property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	have in a quote	present	Father	no right	by the Law of the Jungle	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
3	change in a quote	to-infinitive	Father not said here	Father's quarters	without due warning	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient

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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