The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 122

Kala Nag, which means Black Snake, had served the Indian Government in every way that an elephant could serve it for forty-seven years, and as he was fully twenty years old when he was caught, that makes him nearly seventy--a ripe age for an elephant.

Who acts: Kala, elephant, that · What happens: mean, serve, be, catch, make · To what, where: Black Snake, Indian Government, way, Government, Kala, seventy

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kala, elephant, that), 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	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kala	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Snake	amod
7	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 served	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 served	aux
10	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 means	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Government	det
12	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Government	amod
13	Government	Government	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 served	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 served	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 serve	mark
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 elephant	det
19	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 serve	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 serve	aux
21	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	acl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 serve	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	27 years	case
24	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 years	nummod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 seven	punct
26	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 forty	conj
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 serve	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 age	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 age	cc
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 old	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 old	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 old	cop
33	fully	fully	ADV	_	34 twenty	advmod
34	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 years	nummod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 old	obl:unmarked
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 age	advcl
37	when	when	SCONJ	_	40 caught	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 caught	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 caught	aux:pass
40	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 old	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 makes	punct
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 makes	nsubj
43	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 old	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 makes	obj
45	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	46 seventy	advmod
46	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 makes	obj
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 old	punct
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 age	det
49	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 age	amod
50	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 served	obl
51	for	for	ADP	_	53 elephant	case
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 elephant	det
53	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 age	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Kala	Black Snake					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic
2	serve	past · perfect	Kala not said here	the Indian Government		every way	a ripe age for a elephant		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent government=Value in way=Location
3	serve	could	a elephant	Government			year		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
4	is	past	Kala				year	old property	tree rules
5	catch	past · passive		Kala					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	make	present	that	seventy	Kala				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary seventy=Product

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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