The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 140

He was ten years old, the eldest son of Big Toomai, and, according to custom, he would take his father’s place on Kala Nag’s neck when he grew up, and would handle the heavy iron ankus, the elephant goad, that had been worn smooth by his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather.

Who acts: grandson, father · What happens: be, accord, take, grow up, handle, wear · To what, where: place, neck, grandfather, heavy iron ankus

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 (grandson, father), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 son	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 son	det
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 old	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Big	case
11	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 son	nmod
12	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Big	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 and	punct
16	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 custom	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 according	fixed
18	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 custom	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 old	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 place	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 father	case
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 neck	case
28	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 neck	nmod:poss
29	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Kala	flat
30	’s	's	PART	_	28 Kala	case
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 grew	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 grew	nsubj
34	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 take	parataxis
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 grew	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 handle	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 handle	cc
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 handle	aux
39	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 grew	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ankus	det
41	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 ankus	amod
42	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ankus	compound
43	ankus	ankus	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 handle	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 goad	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 goad	det
46	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 goad	compound
47	goad	goad	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ankus	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 worn	punct
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 worn	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 worn	aux
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 worn	aux:pass
52	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 ankus	acl
53	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 worn	xcomp
54	by	by	ADP	_	56 father	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 father	nmod:poss
56	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 worn	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 grandfather	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 grandfather	cc
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 grandfather	nmod:poss
60	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grew	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 grandfather	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 grandfather	cc
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 grandfather	nmod:poss
64	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 grandfather	amod
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 great	punct
66	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grew	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	grandson			year	old property	tree rules
2	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	take	would	grandson	grandson's father's place	Kala's neck		accord custom	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on neck=Destination
4	grow up	past	grandson	grandson's grandfather				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	handle	would	grandson not said here	the heavy iron ankus and the elephant goad				vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ankus=Theme
6	wear	past · perfect · passive	grandson's father	the heavy iron ankus and the elephant goad			smooth property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source

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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