The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 4
Ever since Akela had been deposed, the Pack had been without a leader, hunting and fighting at their own pleasure.
Who acts: Pack, leader, feet · What happens: depose, be, hunt, fight, please · To what, where: Akela, own pleasure
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 (Pack, leader, feet), 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 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 deposed | advmod |
| 2 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 deposed | mark |
| 3 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 deposed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deposed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 deposed | aux:pass |
| 6 | deposed | depose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 leader | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deposed | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pack | det |
| 9 | Pack | Pack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 leader | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 leader | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 leader | cop |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 leader | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 leader | det |
| 14 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hunting | punct |
| 16 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 leader | acl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fighting | cc |
| 18 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 hunting | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 pleasure | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pleasure | amod |
| 22 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fighting | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 leader | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depose | past · perfect · passive | Akela | ever | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the Pack | without a leader | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | a leader not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fight | gerund | a leader not said here | feet's own pleasure | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | please | feet = foot | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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