The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 16

Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.

Who acts: Everybody, nobody, Bagheera · What happens: know, care, cross, be · To what, where: Bagheera, path

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 (Everybody, nobody, Bagheera), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cared	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cared	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 cared	nsubj
7	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cross	mark
9	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cared	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 path	nmod:poss
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cross	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 cunning	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 cunning	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cunning	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cunning	cop
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 cunning	advmod
17	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	parataxis
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 Tabaqui	case
19	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 cunning	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bold	punct
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 bold	case
22	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cunning	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 buffalo	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 buffalo	det
25	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 buffalo	amod
26	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bold	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 reckless	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 reckless	cc
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 reckless	advmod
30	reckless	reckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cunning	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	34 elephant	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 elephant	det
33	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 elephant	amod
34	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reckless	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Everybody	Bagheera		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bagheera=Stimulus
2	care	past	nobody			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	cross	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	Bagheera's path		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient
4	is	past	Bagheera		as Tabaqui; cunning property	tree rules
5	be		Bagheera not said here		as the wild buffalo	tree rules
6	be		Bagheera not said here		as the wounded elephant	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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