The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 76

In a Keddah at least there was torchlight and shouting, but here he was all alone in the dark, and once a trunk came up and touched him on the knee.

Who acts: hustling, trunk · What happens: be, shout, come up, touch · To what, where: torchlight, Keddah, dark, hustling

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 (hustling, trunk), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Keddah	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Keddah	det
3	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 torchlight	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 least	case
5	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 was	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 torchlight	cop
8	torchlight	torchlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shouting	cc
10	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 torchlight	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 alone	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 alone	cc
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 alone	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 alone	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 alone	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 alone	advmod
17	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 torchlight	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dark	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dark	det
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 alone	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 came	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 trunk	det
25	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 torchlight	parataxis
27	up	up	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 touched	cc
29	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 came	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 touched	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 knee	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 knee	det
33	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 touched	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 torchlight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		torchlight	a Keddah		tree rules
2	shout speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	hustling		the dark; here	all, alone property	tree rules
4	come up	past	a trunk			once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	touch	past	a trunk not said here	hustling		on the knee	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer on knee=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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