The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 99
Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green.
Who acts: night, black waters · What happens: be, sparkle · To what, where: black waters
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, black waters), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 hush | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | hush | hush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 baby | nsubj |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 baby | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 baby | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 baby | nmod:poss |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 baby | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 baby | parataxis |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 is | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sparkled | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sparkled | cc |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 waters | amod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 waters | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sparkled | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sparkled | nsubj |
| 21 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 baby | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 green | advmod |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sparkled | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 baby | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | the night | behind us | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind we=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the black waters | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sparkle | past | the black waters | green property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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