The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 28

“I am now teaching him the Master Words of the Jungle that shall protect him with the birds and the Snake People, and all that hunt on four feet, except his own pack.

Who acts: Baloo, Jungle, that · What happens: teach, protect, hunt, word · To what, where: Master Words, face, four feet, Jungle

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baloo, Jungle, that), 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 teaching	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 teaching	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 teaching	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 teaching	advmod
5	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 teaching	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Words	det
8	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Words	compound
9	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teaching	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Jungle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Jungle	det
12	Jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Words	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 protect	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 protect	aux
15	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Jungle	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 protect	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 birds	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 protect	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 People	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 People	det
22	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 People	compound
23	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 birds	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hunt	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hunt	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 hunt	det:predet
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 hunt	nsubj
28	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 teaching	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 feet	case
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 feet	nummod
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hunt	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pack	punct
33	except	except	ADP	_	36 pack	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 pack	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pack	amod
36	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hunt	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 teaching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	Baloo	the Master Words of the Jungle	face		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient word=Topic
2	protect in a quote	shall	the Jungle		face			with the birds and the Snake People	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	hunt in a quote	present	that			four feet		except face's own pack	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location
4	word in a quote			the Jungle					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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