The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 4
Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council--Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey--rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
Who acts: sleepy brown bear, old Baloo, answer · What happens: allow, teach, come, go, please, eat · To what, where: only other creature, Pack Council, wolf cubs, nuts, hind quarters
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 (sleepy brown bear, old Baloo, answer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 creature | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 3 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 allowed | aux:pass |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 creature | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Council | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Council | det |
| 11 | Pack | Pack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Council | compound |
| 12 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 allowed | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Baloo | punct |
| 14 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Council | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bear | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bear | det |
| 17 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bear | amod |
| 18 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bear | amod |
| 19 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Council | appos |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 teaches | nsubj |
| 21 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bear | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cubs | det |
| 23 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cubs | compound |
| 24 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 teaches | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Law | det |
| 26 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 cubs | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Jungle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Jungle | det |
| 29 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Law | nmod |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 Baloo | punct |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Baloo | amod |
| 32 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 creature | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 come | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 come | aux |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 Baloo | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 go | cc |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 come | conj |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 pleases | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 pleases | nsubj |
| 41 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 go | advcl |
| 42 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 44 eats | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 eats | nsubj |
| 44 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 pleases | ccomp |
| 45 | only | only | ADV | _ | 46 nuts | advmod |
| 46 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 eats | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 roots | cc |
| 48 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 nuts | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 honey | cc |
| 50 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 nuts | conj |
| 51 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 rose | punct |
| 52 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 eats | parataxis |
| 53 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 56 quarters | case |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 quarters | nmod:poss |
| 55 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 quarters | amod |
| 56 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 rose | obl |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 grunted | cc |
| 58 | grunted | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 rose | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | present · passive | the only other creature | the Pack Council | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | present | the sleepy brown bear | the wolf cubs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cub=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | can | old Baloo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | old Baloo not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | please | present | answer | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | eat | present | answer | nuts and roots and honey | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | ||||
| 7 | rise | past | answer's hind quarters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon quarter=Location | |||||
| 8 | grunt | past | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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