The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 7
There was no tune and no words, but the thumping made him happy.
Who acts: tune, thumping · What happens: be, make · To what, where: Little
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 (tune, thumping), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 tune | det |
| 4 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 words | cc |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tune | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thumping | det |
| 11 | thumping | thumping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tune | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no tune and no words | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the thumping | Little | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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