The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 45

He was the head of all the Keddah operations--the man who caught all the elephants for the Government of India, and who knew more about the ways of elephants than any living man.

Who acts: Toomai, man, head · What happens: be, catch, know · To what, where: head, elephants, more

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toomai, man, head), 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	4 head	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 head	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 operations	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 operations	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 operations	det
8	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 operations	compound
9	operations	operation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 head	nmod
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 operations	appos
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 caught	nsubj
14	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 elephants	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 elephants	det
17	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 caught	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 Government	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Government	det
20	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caught	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 India	case
22	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Government	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 knew	cc
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 head	conj
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 knew	obj
28	about	about	ADP	_	30 ways	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ways	det
30	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 more	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 elephants	case
32	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ways	nmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	36 man	case
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 man	det
35	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 elephants	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Toomai	the head	of all Keddah operations	tree rules
2	catch	past	the man	all elephants	for the Government of India	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme for government=Beneficiary
3	know	past	the head	more		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

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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