The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 21

And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes, and groans of the tethered elephants.

Who acts: you, encouragement · What happens: be, pitch, snap, groan, tether, yell

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 (you, encouragement), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 hear	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 hear	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lull	det
8	lull	lull	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 yells	nmod:poss
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pitched	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 high	punct
15	pitched	pitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 yells	amod
16	yells	yell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hear	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 encouragement	case
18	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yells	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Kala	case
20	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 encouragement	nmod
21	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Kala	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 trumpeting	punct
23	above	above	ADP	_	25 trumpeting	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trumpeting	det
25	trumpeting	trumpeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yells	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 crashing	cc
27	crashing	crashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trumpeting	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 snapping	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 snapping	cc
30	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hear	advcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 ropes	case
32	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 snapping	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 groans	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 groans	cc
35	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 elephants	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 elephants	det
38	tethered	tether	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 elephants	amod
39	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 groans	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	could · past	you	hear, soon property	tree rules
2	pitch	participle			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	snap	gerund	you not said here	of ropes	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of rope=Co-Patient
4	groan	present	you not said here	of the tethered elephants	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tether	participle			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	yell		encouragement to Kala		nom yell «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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