The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 73
Then a cloud came over the moon, and he sat in black darkness.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: come, sit · To what, where: moon, black darkness
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 (cloud), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloud | det |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 moon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 darkness | case |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 darkness | amod |
| 14 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a cloud | the moon | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over moon=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past | cloud | black darkness | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in darkness=Location |
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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