The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 33
But between those times he moved absolutely without any sound, drifting through the thick Garo forest as though it had been smoke.
Who acts: shoulder, cluster · What happens: move, drift, be · To what, where: thick Garo forest, smoke
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 (shoulder, cluster), 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 moved | cc |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 times | case |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 times | det |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 moved | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moved | nsubj |
| 6 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 6 moved | advmod |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 sound | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 sound | det |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moved | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drifting | punct |
| 12 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 moved | advcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 15 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 forest | amod |
| 16 | Garo | Garo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 forest | compound |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drifting | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 smoke | advmod |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 smoke | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 smoke | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 smoke | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 smoke | cop |
| 23 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drifting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | shoulder | time | without any sound; absolutely property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | drift | gerund | shoulder not said here | the thick Garo forest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | cluster | smoke | tree rules |
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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