The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 65
There was a long hush, for no single wolf cared to fight Akela to the death.
Who acts: long hush, single wolf · What happens: be, care, fight · To what, where: Akela
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 (long hush, single wolf), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hush | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hush | amod |
| 5 | hush | hush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cared | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 cared | mark |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 wolf | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wolf | amod |
| 10 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cared | nsubj |
| 11 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fight | mark |
| 13 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cared | xcomp |
| 14 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fight | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 death | det |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fight | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a long hush | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | care | past | no single wolf | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | no single wolf not said here | Akela | to the death | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent akela=Co-Agent |
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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