The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 70

Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have allowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.

Who acts: Shere, Akela, lame tiger, Pack, thing · What happens: cross, grow, come, be, follow, not allow · To what, where: path, great friends, Shere, Akela, authority, proper bounds

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 (Shere, Akela, lame tiger, Pack), 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	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crossing	nsubj
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Shere	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crossing	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 crossing	advmod
5	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 path	nmod:poss
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossing	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 jungle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jungle	det
10	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 grew	mark
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 grew	mark
14	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crossing	conj
16	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 grew	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feebler	cc
18	feebler	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 older	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tiger	det
20	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tiger	compound
21	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 grew	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	27 friends	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 friends	cop
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 friends	amod
27	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	xcomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 wolves	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wolves	det
30	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 wolves	amod
31	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 friends	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Pack	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Pack	det
34	Pack	Pack	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 wolves	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 followed	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 followed	nsubj
37	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 Pack	acl:relcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 followed	obj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 scraps	case
40	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 followed	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 thing	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 thing	det
43	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Pack	appos
44	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 allowed	nsubj:pass
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 allowed	aux
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	48 allowed	advmod
47	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 allowed	aux
48	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 thing	acl:relcl
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 dared	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 dared	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 dared	aux
52	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 allowed	xcomp
53	to	to	PART	_	54 push	mark
54	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 dared	xcomp
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 authority	nmod:poss
56	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 push	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	60 bounds	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 bounds	det
59	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 bounds	amod
60	bounds	bound	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 push	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crossing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past · progressive	Shere	Shere's path		in the jungle; always property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent path=Patient in jungle=Topic
2	grow	past	Akela			old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past · perfect	the lame tiger				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	the lame tiger not said here	great friends		with the younger wolves of the Pack	tree rules
5	follow	past	the Pack	Shere		for scraps	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for scrap=Attribute
6	not allow	would · perfect · passive	a thing not said here	Akela			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	dare a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Akela				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	push not said to happen	to-infinitive	Akela not said here	Shere's authority	the proper bounds		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent authority=Theme to bound=Trajectory

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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