The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 34

He was going uphill, but though Little Toomai watched the stars in the rifts of the trees, he could not tell in what direction.

Who acts: shoulder, Little · What happens: go, watch, not tell · To what, where: stars, rifts, direction · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Little), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	uphill	uphill	ADV	_	3 going	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 watched	mark
8	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 watched	nsubj
9	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Little	flat
10	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stars	det
12	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 watched	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 rifts	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rifts	det
15	rifts	rift	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 watched	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rifts	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watched	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 tell	advmod
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 direction	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 direction	nsubj
26	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	shoulder			uphill property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	past	Little	the stars	the rifts of the trees		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	could	shoulder		direction		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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