The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 96
I have obeyed the Law of the Jungle, and there is no wolf of ours from whose paws I have not pulled a thorn.
Who acts: I, wolf, paws · What happens: obey, be, not pull · To what, where: Law, I
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 (I, wolf, paws), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | aux |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Law | det |
| 5 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Jungle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Jungle | det |
| 8 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Law | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 is | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 wolf | det |
| 14 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ours | case |
| 16 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wolf | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 paws | case |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 paws | nmod:poss |
| 19 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ours | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pulled | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 pulled | advmod |
| 23 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 paws | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thorn | det |
| 25 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pulled | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | present · perfect | I | the Law of the Jungle | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no wolf | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not pull | present · perfect · passive | paws not said here | I | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Theme thorn=Result |
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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