The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 53

He grew up with the cubs, though they, of course, were grown wolves almost before he was a child.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: grow up, grow, be · To what, where: books

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 (Mowgli), 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	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 grew	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cubs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cubs	det
6	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grown	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 grown	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grown	nsubj:pass
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 course	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 course	case
12	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 they	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 they	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grown	aux:pass
15	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grew	conj
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grown	obj
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 child	advmod
18	before	before	ADP	_	22 child	case
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 child	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 child	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 child	det
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grown	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	Mowgli			with the cubs	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past · passive		books = book			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary wolf=Product
3	is	past	Mowgli		before a child	almost property	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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