The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 32

Luckily, the Law of the Jungle had taught him to keep his temper, for in the jungle life and food depend on keeping your temper; but when they made fun of him because he would not play games or fly kites, or because he mispronounced some word, only the knowledge that it was unsportsmanlike to kill little naked cubs kept him from picking them up and breaking them in two.

Who acts: food, children, Mowgli, it, knowledge, your · What happens: teach, keep, depend, make, not play, fly · To what, where: Law, Mowgli, temper, fun, games, kites

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 (food, children, Mowgli, it), 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	Luckily	luckily	ADV	_	9 taught	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Luckily	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Law	det
4	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 taught	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Jungle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Jungle	det
7	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Law	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taught	aux
9	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 taught	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 taught	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 temper	nmod:poss
14	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keep	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 life	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 life	case
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 life	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 life	det
19	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 life	compound
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keep	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 food	cc
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 life	conj
23	depend	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 food	acl:relcl
24	on	on	SCONJ	_	25 keeping	mark
25	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 depend	advcl
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 temper	nmod:poss
27	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keeping	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 made	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 made	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taught	parataxis
33	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fun	nmod
36	because	because	SCONJ	_	40 play	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 play	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 play	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 play	advmod
40	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 made	advcl
41	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 play	obj
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 fly	cc
43	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 play	conj
44	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fly	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 mispronounced	punct
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 mispronounced	cc
47	because	because	SCONJ	_	49 mispronounced	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 mispronounced	nsubj
49	mispronounced	mispronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 made	conj
50	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	51 word	det
51	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 mispronounced	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 knowledge	punct
53	only	only	ADV	_	55 knowledge	advmod
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 knowledge	det
55	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 kept	nsubj
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 unsportsmanlike	mark
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 unsportsmanlike	nsubj
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 unsportsmanlike	cop
59	unsportsmanlike	unsportsmanlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 knowledge	appos
60	to	to	PART	_	61 kill	mark
61	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 unsportsmanlike	csubj
62	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 cubs	amod
63	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 cubs	amod
64	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 kill	obj
65	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 word	acl:relcl
66	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 kept	obj
67	from	from	SCONJ	_	68 picking	mark
68	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	65 kept	advcl
69	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 picking	obj
70	up	up	ADP	_	68 picking	compound:prt
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 breaking	cc
72	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	68 picking	conj
73	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 breaking	obj
74	in	in	ADP	_	75 two	case
75	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	72 breaking	obl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the Law of the Jungle	Mowgli		luckily property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
2	keep	to-infinitive		Mowgli's temper			for the jungle life and food	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme
3	depend	present	food not said here					vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	keep	gerund	food not said here	your temper				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme
5	make	past	children = child	fun of Mowgli				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
6	not play	would	Mowgli	games				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
7	fly	infinitive	Mowgli not said here	kites				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kite=Theme
8	mispronounce	past	Mowgli	some word				tree rules
9	is	past	it				unsportsmanlike property	tree rules
10	kill	to-infinitive		little naked cubs				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Theme
11	keep	past	the knowledge	Mowgli				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
12	pick up	gerund	the knowledge not said here	children = child				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
13	break	gerund	the knowledge not said here	children = child		two		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
14	temper		Mowgli					nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
15	temper		your					nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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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