The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 22

But he was not always alone, because, years afterward, he became a man and married.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: not be, become, marry · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli), 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	_	6 alone	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 alone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alone	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 alone	advmod
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 alone	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 became	mark
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 years	punct
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 became	obl:unmarked
11	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	10 years	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 afterward	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alone	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 married	cc
18	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 became	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 alone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Mowgli			alone, always property	tree rules
2	become	past	Mowgli	a man	year		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	marry	past	Mowgli not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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