The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 123

It is in my heart that when Akela misses his next kill--and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck--the Pack will turn against him and against thee.

Who acts: wish, Akela, Pack · What happens: be, miss, hunt, cost, pin, turn · To what, where: heart, each, more, Akela, buck

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wish, Akela, Pack), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heart	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heart	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 heart	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 misses	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 misses	advmod
8	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 misses	nsubj
9	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heart	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 kill	nmod:poss
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kill	amod
12	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 misses	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 hunt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hunt	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 hunt	obl
17	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heart	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 costs	nsubj
19	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hunt	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 costs	iobj
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 costs	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pin	mark
23	pin	pin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 more	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 buck	det
25	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pin	obj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 turn	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Pack	det
28	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 turn	aux
30	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 costs	conj
31	against	against	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turn	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 thee	cc
34	against	against	ADP	_	35 thee	case
35	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 him	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heart	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	wish			my heart		tree rules
2	miss	present	Akela	my heart				tree rules
3	hunt	present	wish not said here			each		tree rules
4	cost	present	wish	more	Akela			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary more=Value
5	pin	to-infinitive	wish not said here	the buck				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buck=Patient
6	turn	future	the Pack				against Akela	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory
7	kill		Akela					nom kill «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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