The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 106

To do Buldeo justice, if he had been ten years younger he would have taken his chance with Akela had he met the wolf in the woods, but a wolf who obeyed the orders of this boy who had private wars with man-eating tigers was not a common animal.

Who acts: Akela, war, wolf, boy, orders · What happens: do, take, have, meet, obey, eat · To what, where: Buldeo justice, war, wolf, woods, private wars, common animal

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Akela, war, wolf, boy), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 do	mark
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 obeyed	parataxis
3	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 justice	compound
4	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 taken	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taken	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 taken	aux:pass
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 younger	obl:unmarked
12	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 taken	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taken	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 taken	aux
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 do	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 chance	nmod:poss
18	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obj
19	with	with	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 met	nsubj
23	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 had	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wolf	det
25	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 met	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 woods	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woods	det
28	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 met	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 obeyed	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 obeyed	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 wolf	det
32	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 obeyed	nsubj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 obeyed	nsubj
34	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 orders	det
36	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 animal	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 boy	case
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 boy	det
39	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 orders	nmod
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 boy	acl:relcl
42	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 wars	amod
43	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 had	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	48 tigers	case
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eating	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 man	punct
47	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 tigers	amod
48	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 wars	nmod
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 animal	cop
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 animal	advmod
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 animal	det
52	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 animal	amod
53	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 obeyed	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive		Buldeo justice			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality
2	take a condition, not said to happen	would · past · perfect · passive		war			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme chance=Destination
3	have	past	Akela				tree rules
4	meet	past	war	the wolf	the woods		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent
5	obey	past	a wolf				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	this boy	private wars		with eating tigers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient
7	eat	gerund					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not is a	past	the orders of this boy	a common animal			tree rules
9	chance		war				nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent
10	order			this boy			nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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