The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 38

Akela the Lone Wolf lay by the side of his rock as a sign that the leadership of the Pack was open, and Shere Khan with his following of scrap-fed wolves walked to and fro openly being flattered.

Who acts: Akela, leadership, Shere Khan · What happens: lie, be, follow, feed, walk, fro · To what, where: sign

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Akela, leadership, Shere Khan), 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	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wolf	det
3	Lone	Lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Wolf	amod
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Akela	appos
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 rock	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 rock	nmod:poss
11	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 sign	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sign	det
14	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 open	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 leadership	det
17	leadership	leadership	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 open	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Pack	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Pack	det
20	Pack	Pack	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 leadership	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 open	cop
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sign	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 following	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 following	cc
25	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Khan	compound
26	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 following	nsubj
27	with	with	SCONJ	_	29 following	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 following	nsubj
29	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 walked	advcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 wolves	case
31	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fed	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 scrap	punct
33	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 wolves	amod
34	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 walked	obl
35	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	parataxis
36	to	to	ADP	_	35 walked	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fro	cc
38	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 walked	conj
39	openly	openly	ADV	_	41 flattered	advmod
40	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 flattered	aux:pass
41	flattered	flatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 fro	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Akela		by the side of Akela's rock; as a sign	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
2	is	past	the leadership of the Pack	a sign not said here	open property	tree rules
3	follow	gerund	Shere Khan			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feed	participle				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	walk	past			of fed wolves	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of wolf=Trajectory
6	fro	infinitive				tree rules
7	flatter	gerund · passive			openly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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