The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 102

Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa, the night thief, who could slip along the branches as quietly as moss grows, and steal away the strongest monkey that ever lived; of old Kaa, who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them.

Who acts: elders, night thief, moss, strongest monkey, old Kaa, branch · What happens: scare, tell, slip, grow, steal away, live · To what, where: Generations, good behavior, strongest monkey, moss, wisest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elders, night thief, moss, strongest monkey), 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	Generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scared	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 monkeys	case
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Generations	nmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 scared	aux:pass
6	scared	scare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 behavior	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 behavior	amod
9	behavior	behavior	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 stories	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stories	det
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	obl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 elders	nmod:poss
14	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Kaa	case
18	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 thief	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thief	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thief	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thief	compound
22	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slip	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 slip	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 slip	aux
26	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thief	acl:relcl
27	along	along	ADP	_	29 branches	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 branches	det
29	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 slip	obl
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 quietly	advmod
31	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	26 slip	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 grows	mark
33	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grows	nsubj
34	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 slip	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 steal	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 steal	cc
37	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	parataxis
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 steal	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 monkey	det
40	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 monkey	amod
41	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 steal	obj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 lived	nsubj
43	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 lived	advmod
44	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 monkey	acl:relcl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 Kaa	punct
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 Kaa	case
47	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Kaa	amod
48	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 make	punct
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 make	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 make	aux
52	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 Kaa	acl:relcl
53	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 make	obj
54	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 make	xcomp
55	so	so	ADV	_	54 look	advmod
56	like	like	ADP	_	59 branch	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 branch	det
58	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 branch	amod
59	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 look	obl
60	or	or	CCONJ	_	63 stump	cc
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 stump	det
62	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 stump	amod
63	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 branch	conj
64	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 deceived	mark
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 wisest	det
66	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	68 deceived	nsubj
67	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 deceived	aux:pass
68	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	63 stump	acl:relcl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 caught	punct
70	till	till	SCONJ	_	73 caught	mark
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 branch	det
72	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 caught	nsubj
73	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 deceived	conj
74	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 caught	obj
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past · perfect · passive		Generations of monkeys		good behavior		of old Kaa	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	Generations's elders		Generations = generation			by the stories	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	slip	could	the night thief					along the branches; quietly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	grow	present	moss						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	steal away	present		the strongest monkey				away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location monkey=Theme
6	live	past	the strongest monkey				ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	make	could	old Kaa	moss					tree rules
8	look	infinitive	moss not said here					like a dead branch or a rotten stump	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	deceive	past · passive		the wisest					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
10	catch	past	the branch	Generations = generation					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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