The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 8

The new elephants strained at their ropes, and squealed and trumpeted from time to time, and he could hear his mother in the camp hut putting his small brother to sleep with an old, old song about the great God Shiv, who once told all the animals what they should eat.

Who acts: new elephants, Little, camp hut, great God, elephants · What happens: strain, squeal, trumpet, hear, put, sleep · To what, where: new elephants, ropes, mother, camp hut, small brother, animals · 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 (new elephants, Little, camp hut, great God), 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	3 elephants	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elephants	amod
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 squealed	nsubj
4	strained	strain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 elephants	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 ropes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ropes	nmod:poss
7	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 strained	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 squealed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 squealed	cc
10	squealed	squeal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 trumpeted	cc
12	trumpeted	trumpet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 squealed	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 time	case
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trumpeted	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 time	case
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trumpeted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hear	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 squealed	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 hut	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hut	det
26	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hut	compound
27	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obl
28	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 hut	acl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brother	nmod:poss
30	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 brother	amod
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 putting	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sleep	mark
33	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 putting	advcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	39 song	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 song	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 song	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 old	punct
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 song	amod
39	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sleep	obl
40	about	about	ADP	_	43 God	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 God	det
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 God	amod
43	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 song	nmod
44	Shiv	Shiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 God	flat
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 told	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 told	nsubj
47	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	48 told	advmod
48	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 God	acl:relcl
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 animals	det:predet
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 animals	det
51	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 told	iobj
52	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	55 eat	obj
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 eat	nsubj
54	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 eat	aux
55	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 animals	acl:relcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 squealed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strain	participle		the new elephants not said here		elephants's ropes			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
2	squeal	participle	the new elephants						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	trumpet	participle	the new elephants not said here				time		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	could	Little	Little's mother		the camp hut			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
5	put	gerund	the camp hut not said here		Little's small brother				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brother=Goal
6	sleep	to-infinitive	the camp hut not said here					with a old old song about the great God	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	past	the great God		all animals			once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient
8	eat	should	elephants = elephant	all animals					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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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