The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 171

They all knew where that place was, but few of the Jungle People ever went there, because what they called the Cold Lairs was an old deserted city, lost and buried in the jungle, and beasts seldom use a place that men have once used.

Who acts: Lairs, place, Jungle People, Cold Lairs, beasts · What happens: know, be, go, call, desert, lose · To what, where: old deserted city, jungle, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lairs, place, Jungle People, Cold Lairs), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 knew	advmod
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 was	advmod
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 few	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 few	cc
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	conj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 went	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 People	det
13	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 People	compound
14	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 went	nsubj
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 went	advmod
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 few	advcl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 went	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 what	punct
19	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 knew	parataxis
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj
22	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 what	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Lairs	det
24	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Lairs	amod
25	Lairs	lair	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 city	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 city	cop
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 city	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 city	amod
29	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 city	amod
30	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lost	punct
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 city	acl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 buried	cc
34	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 lost	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 jungle	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 jungle	det
37	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 buried	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 use	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 use	cc
40	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 use	nsubj
41	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	42 use	advmod
42	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 what	parataxis
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 place	det
44	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 use	obj
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 used	nsubj:pass
46	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 used	nsubj:pass
47	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 used	aux
48	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	49 used	advmod
49	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 place	acl:relcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Lairs = lair					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	that place					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	the Jungle People		there	ever		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call speech: assert	past	Lairs = lair					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	desert	participle						vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	the Cold Lairs	a old deserted city				tree rules
7	lose	participle		a old deserted city not said here				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bury	participle			the jungle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in jungle=Destination
9	use	present	beasts	a place			seldom property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
10	use	present · perfect · passive		a place			once property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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