The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 19

But the really good time came when the driving out began, and the Keddah--that is, the stockade--looked like a picture of the end of the world, and men had to make signs to one another, because they could not hear themselves speak.

Who acts: good time, driving, that, men · What happens: come, drive out, begin, be, look, have · To what, where: stockade, Keddah, signs, one, men · 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 (good time, driving, that, men), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 began	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 began	det
9	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 began	csubj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 driving	compound:prt
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Keddah	det
15	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 looked	nsubj:pass
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 stockade	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 stockade	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stockade	cop
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stockade	det
21	stockade	stockade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Keddah	appos
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
23	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	conj
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 picture	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 picture	det
26	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looked	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 end	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 end	det
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 picture	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 end	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 make	mark
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	xcomp
39	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 make	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 one	case
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 make	obl
42	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 one	fixed
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 hear	punct
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	48 hear	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 hear	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 hear	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 hear	advmod
48	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 make	conj
49	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 hear	obj
50	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 hear	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the good time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drive out	gerund					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	driving				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	present	that	the stockade			tree rules
5	look	participle · passive		the Keddah		like a picture of the end of the world	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
6	have	past	men				tree rules
7	make	to-infinitive	men not said here	signs	one		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
8	not hear	could	men = man	men = man			tree rules
9	speak speech: other	infinitive	men = man not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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