The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 1

It was not for fun that he had learned while he was with the wolves to imitate the challenge of bucks in the jungle and the grunt of the little wild pig.

Who acts: It, he, little wild pig · What happens: not be, learn, be, imitate, challenge, grunt · To what, where: fun, challenge, jungle, bucks

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, he, little wild pig), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fun	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fun	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fun	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 fun	case
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 learned	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 learned	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 learned	aux
9	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fun	acl:relcl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 wolves	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wolves	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wolves	cop
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 wolves	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wolves	det
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 learned	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 imitate	mark
17	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 learned	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 challenge	det
19	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 imitate	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 bucks	case
21	bucks	buck	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 challenge	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 jungle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 jungle	det
24	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 imitate	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grunt	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grunt	det
27	grunt	grunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jungle	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 pig	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pig	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pig	amod
31	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pig	amod
32	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grunt	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	It			for fun	tree rules
2	learn	past · perfect	he	fun not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Topic
3	is	past	he			with the wolves	tree rules
4	imitate	to-infinitive	he not said here	the challenge of bucks	the jungle and the grunt of the little wild pig		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme
5	challenge			bucks			nom challenge «state transitive»: of=patient
6	grunt		the little wild pig				nom grunt «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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