The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 109
There are great cleared flat places hidden away in the forests that are called elephants’ ball-rooms, but even these are only found by accident, and no man has ever seen the elephants dance.
Who acts: great cleared flat places, accident, man, elephants · What happens: be, clear, hide away, call, find, see · To what, where: great cleared flat places, forests, these, elephants · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great cleared flat places, accident, man, elephants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:1923): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 places | amod |
| 4 | cleared | clear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 places | amod |
| 5 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 places | amod |
| 6 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 7 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 places | acl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 hidden | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forests | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forests | det |
| 11 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hidden | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | aux:pass |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 places | acl:relcl |
| 15 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 15 elephants | case |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rooms | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ball | punct |
| 19 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 called | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 these | advmod |
| 23 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 found | advmod |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 are | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 accident | case |
| 28 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seen | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 seen | cc |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 man | det |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seen | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 seen | advmod |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 are | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dance | det |
| 37 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 seen | obj |
| 38 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 seen | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | great cleared flat places | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clear | participle | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 3 | hide away | participle | great cleared flat places not said here | the forests | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | |||
| 4 | call | present · passive | great cleared flat places | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | find | present · passive | accident | these | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 6 | see | present · perfect | no man | elephants | ever | tree rules | |||
| 7 | dance | infinitive | elephants not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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