The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 56

Some trees grew in the center of the clearing, but their bark was rubbed away, and the white wood beneath showed all shiny and polished in the patches of moonlight.

Who acts: trees, white wood · What happens: grow, rub away, show, polish · To what, where: center, bark, patches

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 (trees, white wood), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 center	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 center	det
6	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 clearing	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clearing	det
9	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 center	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rubbed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 rubbed	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bark	nmod:poss
13	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rubbed	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rubbed	aux:pass
15	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grew	conj
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 rubbed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shiny	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shiny	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wood	amod
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shiny	nsubj
22	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	23 showed	mark
23	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wood	acl:relcl
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 shiny	advmod
25	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 polished	cc
27	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 shiny	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 patches	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 patches	det
30	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 polished	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 moonlight	case
32	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 patches	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	some trees		the center of the clearing		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in center=Location
2	rub away	past · passive		trees's bark		away property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	show	past	the white wood not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	polish	participle	some trees not said here		the patches of moonlight		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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