The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 78

The dew from the trees above spattered down like rain on the unseen backs, and a dull booming noise began, not very loud at first, and Little Toomai could not tell what it was.

Who acts: dull booming noise, Little Toomai, noise · What happens: spatter down, begin, not tell, be · To what, where: dew, unseen backs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dull booming noise, Little Toomai, noise), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dew	det
2	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spattered	nsubj:pass
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dew	nmod
6	above	above	ADP	_	7 spattered	mark
7	spattered	spatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 spattered	compound:prt
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 rain	case
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spattered	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 backs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 backs	det
13	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 backs	amod
14	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spattered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 noise	det
18	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 noise	amod
19	booming	booming	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 noise	compound
20	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spattered	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 loud	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 loud	advmod
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 loud	advmod
25	loud	loud	ADV	_	21 began	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 first	case
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 loud	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tell	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tell	cc
30	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Toomai	amod
31	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 tell	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 tell	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 tell	advmod
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	parataxis
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 tell	ccomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 what	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 what	cop
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spatter down	participle · passive		the dew from the trees	the unseen backs	like rain	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on back=Destination
2	begin	past	a dull booming noise			loud property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	not tell speech: assert	could	Little Toomai				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	noise				tree rules

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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