The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 91
But remember, Akela is very old, and soon the day comes when he cannot kill his buck, and then he will be leader no more.
Who acts: you, Akela, day · What happens: remember, be, come, not kill · To what, where: buck, leader · 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 (you, Akela, day), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 remember | cc |
| 2 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 4 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 old | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 old | advmod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 remember | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 comes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 comes | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 comes | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | conj |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 kill | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kill | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 kill | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 kill | advmod |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 comes | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 buck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kill | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 leader | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 leader | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 leader | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 leader | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 leader | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 leader | cop |
| 27 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 old | conj |
| 28 | no | no | ADV | _ | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 leader | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Akela | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | the day | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not kill | can | Akela | Akela's buck | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buck=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | future | Akela | leader | then | 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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