The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 64

The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.

Who acts: Law · What happens: not order, forbid, eat, kill, show, hunt · To what, where: anything, beast, Man, children, hunting grounds

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Law	det
2	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 orders	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Jungle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Jungle	det
5	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Law	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 orders	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 orders	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 orders	advmod
9	orders	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 orders	obj
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 reason	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 reason	det
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 orders	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forbids	punct
15	forbids	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 orders	conj
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 beast	det
17	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 forbids	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 forbids	advcl
20	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eat	obj
21	except	except	ADP	_	25 killing	mark
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 killing	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 killing	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 killing	aux
25	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 Man	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 show	mark
27	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 killing	xcomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 children	nmod:poss
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 show	obj
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 kill	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 kill	mark
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 show	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hunt	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 hunt	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 hunt	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hunt	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 hunt	aux
38	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 orders	parataxis
39	outside	outside	ADP	_	42 grounds	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 grounds	det
41	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 grounds	compound
42	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	38 hunt	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 pack	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 pack	nmod:poss
45	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 grounds	nmod
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 tribe	cc
47	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pack	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 orders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not order	present	the Law of the Jungle	anything				without a reason	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	forbid	present	the Law of the Jungle not said here	every beast					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer beast=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	the Law of the Jungle not said here	Man					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	kill	present · progressive	Law						tree rules
5	show	to-infinitive	Law not said here		Law's children				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
6	kill	to-infinitive	Law not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	hunt	must	Law			the hunting grounds of Law's pack or tribe	then		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent outside grounds=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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