The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 25
_The song of pleasant stations beside the salt lagoons, The song of blowing squadrons that shuffled down the dunes, The song of midnight dances that churned the sea to flame— The Beaches of Lukannon—before the sealers came!
Who acts: blowing squadrons, midnight dances, sealers, pleasant stations · What happens: shuffle down, churn, come, sing · To what, where: dunes, sea
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 (blowing squadrons, midnight dances, sealers, pleasant stations), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 song | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stations | case |
| 5 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stations | amod |
| 6 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 song | nmod |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 lagoons | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lagoons | det |
| 9 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lagoons | compound |
| 10 | lagoons | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stations | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 song | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 song | det |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lagoons | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 squadrons | case |
| 15 | blowing | blowing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 squadrons | amod |
| 16 | squadrons | squadron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 song | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shuffled | nsubj |
| 18 | shuffled | shuffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 squadrons | acl:relcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 shuffled | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dunes | det |
| 21 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shuffled | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 song | punct |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 song | det |
| 24 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 song | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 dances | case |
| 26 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dances | compound |
| 27 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 song | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 churned | nsubj |
| 29 | churned | churn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 dances | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 churned | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 flame | mark |
| 33 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 churned | obl |
| 34 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Beaches | punct |
| 35 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Beaches | det |
| 36 | Beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flame | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Lukannon | case |
| 38 | Lukannon | Lukannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Beaches | nmod |
| 39 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Beaches | punct |
| 40 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 43 came | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sealers | det |
| 42 | sealers | sealer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 came | nsubj |
| 43 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 churned | advcl |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shuffle down | past | blowing squadrons | the dunes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dune=Patient | ||||
| 2 | churn | past | midnight dances | the sea | flame obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Product | |||
| 3 | come | past | the sealers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing | pleasant stations beside the salt lagoons and the song of blowing squadrons | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sing | blowing squadrons | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | sing | midnight dances | nom song «communication 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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