The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 87
“Also, I paid for him with a bull when he was accepted.
Who acts: Akela · What happens: pay, accept · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 paid | punct |
| 2 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 5 paid | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Also | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 paid | nsubj |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 paid | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 bull | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bull | det |
| 10 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 accepted | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 accepted | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 accepted | aux:pass |
| 14 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 paid | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | past | Akela | for Akela; with a bull | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accept in a quote | past · passive | Akela | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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