The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 70

At last there was no sound of any more elephants moving in the forest, and Kala Nag rolled out from his station between the trees and went into the middle of the crowd, clucking and gurgling, and all the elephants began to talk in their own tongue, and to move about.

Who acts: more elephants, Kala, elephants · What happens: move, roll out, go, cluck, gurgle, begin · To what, where: forest, station, middle, own tongue

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 (more elephants, Kala, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rolled	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 elephants	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 elephants	det
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 elephants	amod
10	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sound	nmod
11	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 elephants	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moving	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rolled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rolled	cc
17	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 rolled	nsubj
18	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Kala	flat
19	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 rolled	compound:prt
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 station	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 station	nmod:poss
23	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rolled	obl
24	between	between	ADP	_	26 trees	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 station	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rolled	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 middle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 middle	det
31	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 crowd	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 crowd	det
34	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 middle	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 clucking	punct
36	clucking	cluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 went	advcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gurgling	cc
38	gurgling	gurgle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 clucking	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 began	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 began	cc
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 elephants	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 elephants	det
43	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 began	nsubj
44	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rolled	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 talk	mark
46	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 began	xcomp
47	in	in	ADP	_	50 tongue	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 tongue	nmod:poss
49	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 tongue	amod
50	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 talk	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 move	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 move	cc
53	to	to	PART	_	54 move	mark
54	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 talk	conj
55	about	about	ADV	_	54 move	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	move	gerund	any more elephants not said here	the forest		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory
2	roll out	past	Kala	Kala's station between the trees		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from station=Trajectory
3	go	past	Kala not said here	the middle of the crowd		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into middle=Initial_Location
4	cluck	gerund	Kala not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gurgle	gerund	Kala not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	begin	past	all elephants			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	talk	to-infinitive	all elephants not said here	elephants's own tongue		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	move about	to-infinitive	all elephants not said here		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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