The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 66

And these elephants were not thinking of men that night.

Who acts: elephants · What happens: not think

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 (elephants), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 thinking	cc
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 elephants	det
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thinking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thinking	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 thinking	advmod
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thinking	obl
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	obl:unmarked
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · progressive	this elephants				night	of men	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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