The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 91
As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked.
Who acts: tikki · What happens: hold, close, make, bang, prefer, find · To what, where: tikki, death, family
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tikki), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 held | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 preferred | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 closed | nsubj |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | ccomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 7 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tighter | nsubj |
| 8 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 closed | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tighter | cc |
| 10 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 tighter | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 made | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 closed | conj |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | xcomp |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 banged | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 banged | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 banged | aux:pass |
| 19 | banged | bang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 banged | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 honor | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 honor | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 honor | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 honor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 honor | det |
| 27 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 family | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 family | nmod:poss |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 honor | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 preferred | nsubj |
| 33 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 found | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 found | aux:pass |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 preferred | ccomp |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 teeth | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 39 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 found | obl |
| 40 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 found | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 preferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | tikki | for the honor of tikki's family | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | close | past | tikki | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | past | tikki | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bang | would · passive | tikki | death | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to death=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | prefer | past | tikki | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | tikki not said here | with tikki's teeth | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | lock | participle | tikki not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | honor | tikki's family | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=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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