The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 58
But within the limits of the clearing there was not a single blade of green--nothing but the trampled earth.
What happens: not be, trample · To what, where: single blade
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: 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 | _ | 13 blade | cc |
| 2 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 limits | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 limits | det |
| 4 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 was | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 clearing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clearing | det |
| 7 | clearing | clearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 limits | nmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 blade | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 blade | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blade | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blade | amod |
| 13 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 nothing | case |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nothing | amod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 green | punct |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 blade | nmod |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 earth | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 20 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 earth | amod |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 blade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | a single blade | of nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trample | participle | 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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