The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 24

Where roaring on the ledges the summer ground-swell rolled; I heard them lift the chorus that drowned the breakers’ song— The Beaches of Lukannon—two million voices strong.

Who acts: I, ledges, chorus, breakers · What happens: roar, roll, hear, lift, drown, sing · To what, where: ledges, summer ground swell, chorus, song

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 (I, ledges, chorus, breakers), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 roaring	advmod
2	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ledges	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ledges	det
5	ledges	ledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roaring	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swell	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swell	compound
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swell	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 swell	punct
10	swell	swell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ledges	nmod
11	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 swell	acl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 roaring	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	obj
16	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 heard	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chorus	det
18	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lift	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 drowned	nsubj
20	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 chorus	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 breakers	det
22	breakers	breaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 song	nmod:poss
23	’	's	PART	_	22 breakers	case
24	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drowned	obj
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 Beaches	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Beaches	det
27	Beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heard	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Lukannon	case
29	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Beaches	nmod
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 voices	punct
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 million	compound
32	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 voices	nummod
33	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Beaches	conj
34	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 voices	amod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 roaring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roar	gerund			the ledges the summer ground swell		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ledge=Location
2	roll	participle		the summer ground swell not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	I	ledges = ledge		the Beaches of Lukannon and million voices obl	tree rules
4	lift	infinitive	ledges = ledge not said here	the chorus			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chorus=Theme
5	drown	past	the chorus	the breakers's song			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient
6	sing		the breakers				nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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