The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 77
Then an elephant trumpeted, and they all took it up for five or ten terrible seconds.
Who acts: elephant, elephants · What happens: trumpet, take up · To what, where: trunk
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 (elephant, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 trumpeted | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trumpeted | nsubj |
| 4 | trumpeted | trumpet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 took | advmod |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trumpeted | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 seconds | case |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 seconds | nummod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 ten | cc |
| 15 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 five | conj |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 seconds | amod |
| 17 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trumpeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trumpet | participle | a elephant | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | elephants = elephant | trunk | second | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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