The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 84

A tree was creaking and groaning somewhere near him.

Who acts: tree · What happens: creak, groan

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 (tree), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creaking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 creaking	aux
4	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 groaning	cc
6	groaning	groan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 creaking	conj
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 groaning	advmod
8	near	near	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 groaning	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 creaking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creak	past · progressive	a tree						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	groan	gerund	a tree not said here					near Toomai; somewhere property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=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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