The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 160

But he would have been the last person in the world to call these bites, for he knew what real biting meant.

Who acts: Mowgli, real biting · What happens: be, call, know, mean · To what, where: last person, world, bites · 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, real biting), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 person	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 person	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 person	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 person	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 person	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 person	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 person	amod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 person	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 call	mark
13	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 person	acl
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 bites	det
15	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 call	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 knew	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 call	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 meant	obj
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 biting	amod
22	biting	biting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meant	nsubj
23	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 knew	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 person	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	would · perfect	Mowgli	the last person	the world	tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive		this bites		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bite=Recipient
3	know	past	Mowgli			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	mean	past	real biting			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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