The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 92

Most of them had taught their elephants that trick when they were boys.

Who acts: elephants, men · What happens: teach, trick, be · To what, where: Most, elephants, boys

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 (elephants, men), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 taught	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Most	nmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taught	aux
5	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 elephants	nmod:poss
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taught	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 trick	nsubj
9	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 elephants	acl:relcl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 boys	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 boys	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 boys	cop
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trick	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Most of men	men's elephants	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient elephant=Topic
2	trick	present	men's elephants			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	men = man	boys		tree rules

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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