The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 35

And there was a feast by the blazing campfires in front of the lines of picketed elephants, and Little Toomai was the hero of it all.

Who acts: feast, Little Toomai · What happens: be, blaze, picket · To what, where: hero

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, Little Toomai), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feast	det
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 campfires	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 campfires	det
8	blazing	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 campfires	amod
9	campfires	campfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feast	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 campfires	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 lines	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lines	det
14	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 front	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 elephants	case
16	picketed	picket	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 elephants	amod
17	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lines	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hero	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hero	cc
20	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Toomai	amod
21	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 hero	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hero	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hero	det
24	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feast	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hero	nmod
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 it	det
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a feast by the blazing campfires in front of the lines of picketed elephants and the hero		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blaze	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	picket	participle					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Little Toomai	the hero		of feast	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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