The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 16

At last the elephants began to lie down one after another as is their custom, till only Kala Nag at the right of the line was left standing up; and he rocked slowly from side to side, his ears put forward to listen to the night wind as it blew very slowly across the hills.

Who acts: last elephants, one, right, Kala, ears, side · What happens: begin, lie down, be, leave, stand up, rock · To what, where: custom, right, side, hills

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last elephants, one, right, Kala), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 elephants	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elephants	det
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 lie	compound:prt
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 custom	nsubj
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 as	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 as	det
12	as	as	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 custom	cop
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 custom	nmod:poss
15	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Kala	punct
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 Kala	case
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 Kala	advmod
19	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 custom	appos
20	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Kala	flat
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 right	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 right	det
23	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Kala	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 line	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 line	det
26	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	obl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 left	aux:pass
28	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 right	acl:relcl
29	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 left	xcomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 standing	compound:prt
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 rocked	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rocked	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rocked	nsubj
34	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
35	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	34 rocked	advmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 side	case
37	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rocked	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 side	case
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rocked	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 put	punct
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 ears	nmod:poss
42	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 put	nsubj
43	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
44	forward	forward	ADV	_	43 put	advmod
45	to	to	PART	_	46 listen	mark
46	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 put	xcomp
47	to	to	ADP	_	50 wind	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 wind	det
49	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wind	compound
50	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 listen	obl
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 blew	mark
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 blew	nsubj
53	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 put	advcl
54	very	very	ADV	_	55 slowly	advmod
55	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	53 blew	advmod
56	across	across	ADP	_	58 hills	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 hills	det
58	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 blew	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the last elephants				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lie down	to-infinitive	the last elephants not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	one after another as	elephants's custom			tree rules
4	leave	past · passive		the right not said here		of the line	tree rules
5	stand up	gerund	the right not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rock	past	Kala		side	to side; slowly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	put forward	past	Kala's ears			forward property	tree rules
8	listen	to-infinitive	Kala's ears not said here			to the night wind	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wind=Theme
9	blow	past	side		the hills	slowly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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