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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

explamodamodamodnsubjacladvmodcasedetoblnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclnmod:posscasecompoundpunctxcomppunctccadvmodnsubj:passaux:passadvmodconjcaseoblpunctccdetnsubjauxadvmodconjdetobjxcomppunctrootTherePRONareVERBgreatADJclearedVERBflatADJplacesNOUNhiddenVERBawayADVinADPtheDETforestsNOUNthatPRONareAUXcalledVERBelephantsNOUN’PARTballNOUN-PUNCTroomsNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJevenADVthesePRONareAUXonlyADVfoundVERBbyADPaccidentNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJnoDETmanNOUNhasAUXeverADVseenVERBtheDETelephantsNOUNdanceVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 areexpl
2arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3greatgreatADJDegree=Pos6 placesamod
4clearedclearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 placesamod
5flatflatADJDegree=Pos6 placesamod
6placesplaceNOUNNumber=Plur2 arensubj
7hiddenhideVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 placesacl
8awayawayADV_7 hiddenadvmod
9ininADP_11 forestscase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 forestsdet
11forestsforestNOUNNumber=Plur7 hiddenobl
12thatthatPRONPronType=Rel14 callednsubj:pass
13arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 calledaux:pass
14calledcallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 placesacl:relcl
15elephantselephantNOUNNumber=Plur19 roomsnmod:poss
16’'sPART_15 elephantscase
17ballballNOUNNumber=Sing19 roomscompound
18--PUNCT_17 ballpunct
19roomsroomNOUNNumber=Plur14 calledxcomp
20,,PUNCT_26 foundpunct
21butbutCCONJ_26 foundcc
22evenevenADV_23 theseadvmod
23thesethisPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem26 foundnsubj:pass
24arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 foundaux:pass
25onlyonlyADV_26 foundadvmod
26foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 areconj
27bybyADP_28 accidentcase
28accidentaccidentNOUNNumber=Sing26 foundobl
29,,PUNCT_35 seenpunct
30andandCCONJ_35 seencc
31nonoDETPronType=Neg32 mandet
32manmanNOUNNumber=Sing35 seennsubj
33hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 seenaux
34evereverADVPronType=Ind35 seenadvmod
35seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 areconj
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 dancedet
37elephantselephantNOUNNumber=Plur35 seenobj
38dancedanceVERBVerbForm=Inf35 seenxcomp
39..PUNCT_2 arepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1doespresentgreat cleared flat placestherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2clearparticiplevn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
3hide awayparticiplegreat cleared flat places not said herethe forestsaway propertyvn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location
4callpresent · passivegreat cleared flat placesvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5findpresent · passiveaccidentthesevn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
6seepresent · perfectno manelephantsevertree rules
7danceinfinitiveelephants not said herevn 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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