The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 40

When they were all gathered together, Shere Khan began to speak--a thing he would never have dared to do when Akela was in his prime.

Who acts: Shere, Akela · What happens: gather, begin, speak, not dare, not do, be · To what, where: knees, thing, prime · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Shere, Akela), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gathered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gathered	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gathered	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 gathered	advmod
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 began	advcl
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 gathered	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gathered	punct
8	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
9	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Shere	flat
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 speak	mark
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 thing	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thing	det
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speak	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dared	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 dared	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 dared	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 dared	aux
20	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 thing	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dared	xcomp
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 prime	advmod
24	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 prime	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 prime	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 prime	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 prime	nmod:poss
28	prime	prime	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past · passive		knees = knee		all, together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	begin	past	Shere				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Shere not said here	a thing			tree rules
4	not dare	would · perfect	Shere	a thing not said here			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not do	to-infinitive	Shere not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Akela		Akela's prime		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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