The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 54

And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat’s claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.

Who acts: Father Wolf, little fish, splash, work, office · What happens: teach, roost, jump, mean, note, scratch · To what, where: business, Mowgli, tree, pool, much, things

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 (Father Wolf, little fish, splash, work), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 taught	cc
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wolf	compound
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taught	nsubj
4	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taught	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 business	nmod:poss
7	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taught	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meaning	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 meaning	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meaning	det
11	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taught	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 things	case
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 meaning	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 jungle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 jungle	det
16	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 things	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rustle	punct
18	till	till	ADP	_	20 rustle	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 rustle	det
20	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meaning	appos
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 grass	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grass	det
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rustle	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 breath	punct
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 breath	det
26	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rustle	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 air	det
29	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 air	amod
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 air	compound
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 breath	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 note	punct
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 note	det
34	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rustle	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 owls	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 owls	det
37	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 note	nmod
38	above	above	ADP	_	40 head	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 head	nmod:poss
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 owls	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 scratch	punct
42	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	43 scratch	det
43	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meaning	appos
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 claws	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 bat	det
46	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 claws	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 bat	case
48	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 scratch	nmod
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 roosted	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 roosted	nsubj:pass
51	roosted	roost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 taught	advcl
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 while	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 while	det
54	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 roosted	obl
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 tree	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 tree	det
57	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 roosted	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 meant	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 meant	cc
60	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	61 splash	det
61	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 meant	nsubj
62	of	of	ADP	_	65 fish	case
63	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	65 fish	det
64	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 fish	amod
65	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 splash	nmod
66	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	65 fish	acl
67	in	in	ADP	_	69 pool	case
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 pool	det
69	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 jumping	obl
70	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	conj
71	just	just	ADV	_	73 much	advmod
72	as	as	ADV	_	73 much	advmod
73	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 meant	obj
74	to	to	ADP	_	75 him	case
75	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 much	nmod
76	as	as	SCONJ	_	82 means	mark
77	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	78 work	det
78	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 means	nsubj
79	of	of	ADP	_	81 office	case
80	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	81 office	nmod:poss
81	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 work	nmod
82	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 much	advcl
83	to	to	ADP	_	86 man	case
84	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	86 man	det
85	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 man	compound
86	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 means	obl
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	Father Wolf	Mowgli's business	Mowgli			the meaning of things in the jungle obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient business=Topic
2	roost	participle · passive		business		a tree	while		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	jump	gerund	every little fish not said here			a pool			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory
4	mean	past	every splash of every little fish	much				to Mowgli	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot much=Theme to he=Attribute
5	mean	present	the work of Mowgli's office					to a business man	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to man=Attribute
6	mean			things in the jungle					nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	note			the owls above Mowgli's head					nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	scratch			a bat's claws					nom scratch «state transitive»: of=patient
9	splash		every little fish						nom splash «event intransitive»: of=agent
10	work		Mowgli's office						nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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