The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 31

There was one blast of furious trumpeting from the lines, and then the silence shut down on everything, and Kala Nag began to move.

Who acts: one blast, Kala · What happens: be, trumpet, shut down, begin, move · To what, where: lines, silence, everything

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 (one blast, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 blast	nummod
4	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 trumpeting	mark
6	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trumpeting	amod
7	trumpeting	trumpet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 blast	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 lines	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lines	det
10	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trumpeting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 silence	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 silence	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 silence	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 silence	det
15	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
16	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 silence	acl
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 shut	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 everything	case
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 shut	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
22	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
23	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Kala	flat
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 move	mark
26	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	one blast		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	trumpet	gerund	one blast not said here		the lines	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shut down	participle		the silence not said here	everything	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	begin	past	Kala			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	move	to-infinitive	Kala not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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