The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 63

As soon as he was old enough to understand things, Bagheera told him that he must never touch cattle because he had been bought into the Pack at the price of a bull’s life.

Who acts: Mowgli, Bagheera · What happens: be, understand, tell, not touch, buy · To what, where: things, Mowgli, cattle, Bagheera, Pack · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 old	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 old	case
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 understand	mark
9	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	advcl
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 understand	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 touch	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 touch	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 touch	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 touch	advmod
19	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
20	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 touch	obj
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 bought	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bought	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bought	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 bought	aux:pass
25	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 touch	advcl
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 Pack	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Pack	det
28	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bought	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 price	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 price	det
31	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Pack	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 life	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bull	det
34	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 life	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 bull	case
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 price	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mowgli				enough, old, soon property	tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	things				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	Bagheera		Mowgli			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not touch not said to happen	must	Bagheera	cattle				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cattle=Co-Theme
5	buy	past · perfect · passive		Bagheera		the Pack at the price of a bull's life		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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