The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 11
There was a murmur like the ripple of the tide all up and down the beaches.
Who acts: murmur, tide · What happens: be, ripple
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (murmur, tide), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 murmur | det |
| 4 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 ripple | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ripple | det |
| 7 | ripple | ripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 murmur | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tide | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tide | det |
| 10 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ripple | nmod |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 up | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beaches | cc |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 beaches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beaches | det |
| 16 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a murmur like the ripple of the tide | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ripple | the tide | nom ripple «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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