The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 126

So, before he was twenty-five, he gave up being afraid, and so he was the best-loved and the best-looked-after elephant in the service of the Government of India.

Who acts: Kala, twenty five · What happens: be, give up, love, look, service · To what, where: twenty five, Kala, Government

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, twenty five), 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 afraid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 five	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 five	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 five	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 five	cop
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 five	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 afraid	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	csubj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 gave	compound:prt
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 afraid	cop
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 loved	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 loved	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	23 loved	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 loved	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 loved	aux:pass
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 loved	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 loved	advmod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 best	punct
23	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 afraid	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 elephant	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 elephant	det
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 elephant	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 best	punct
28	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 elephant	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 elephant	case
31	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 loved	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 service	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 service	det
34	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 elephant	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Government	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Government	det
37	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 service	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 India	case
39	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Government	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Kala	twenty five		tree rules
2	give up	past	Kala			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund	twenty five		afraid property	tree rules
4	love	past · passive		Kala		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	look	participle				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	service			the Government of India		nom service «act 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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