The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 141
When Mowgli left the wolf’s cave after the fight with the Pack at the Council Rock, he went down to the plowed lands where the villagers lived, but he would not stop there because it was too near to the jungle, and he knew that he had made at least one bad enemy at the Council.
Who acts: Mowgli, villagers, cave · What happens: leave, go down, plow, live, not stop, be · To what, where: cave, one bad enemy, Council · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, villagers, cave), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cave | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 wolf | case |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 fight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fight | det |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Pack | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pack | det |
| 13 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Rock | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Rock | det |
| 16 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Rock | compound |
| 17 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Pack | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 lands | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lands | det |
| 24 | plowed | plow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 lands | amod |
| 25 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 went | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 lived | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 villagers | det |
| 28 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lived | nsubj |
| 29 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lands | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stop | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 stop | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 stop | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 stop | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 stop | advmod |
| 35 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | parataxis |
| 36 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 stop | advmod |
| 37 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 44 jungle | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 jungle | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 jungle | cop |
| 40 | too | too | ADV | _ | 41 near | advmod |
| 41 | near | near | ADV | _ | 44 jungle | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 jungle | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 jungle | det |
| 44 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stop | advcl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 knew | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 knew | cc |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 knew | nsubj |
| 48 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | parataxis |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 made | mark |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 made | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 made | aux |
| 52 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 knew | ccomp |
| 53 | at | at | ADP | _ | 54 least | case |
| 54 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 55 one | nmod |
| 55 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 57 enemy | nummod |
| 56 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 enemy | amod |
| 57 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 made | obj |
| 58 | at | at | ADP | _ | 60 Council | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 Council | det |
| 60 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 enemy | nmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Mowgli | the wolf's cave | after the fight | with the Pack at the Council Rock | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent cave=Recipient with pack=Theme | ||
| 2 | go down | past | Mowgli | to the plowed lands; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | plow | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | live | past | the villagers | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not stop | would | Mowgli | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | is | past | cave | to the jungle; near property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | know | past | Mowgli | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | make | past · perfect | Mowgli | one bad enemy | the Council | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Product |
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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