The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 55
And at that last wild yell the whole line flung up their trunks till the tips touched their foreheads, and broke out into the full salute--the crashing trumpet-peal that only the Viceroy of India hears, the Salaamut of the Keddah.
Who acts: whole line, Viceroy · What happens: fling up, touch, break out, crash, hear · To what, where: trunks, foreheads, last wild yell, full salute, crashing trumpet peal
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 (whole line, Viceroy), 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 | _ | 17 touched | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 yell | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 yell | nsubj |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 yell | amod |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 yell | amod |
| 6 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 line | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 line | amod |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | nsubj |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 line | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 flung | compound:prt |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 trunks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flung | obj |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 tips | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tips | det |
| 16 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flung | obl |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 foreheads | nmod:poss |
| 19 | foreheads | forehead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 touched | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 broke | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 broke | cc |
| 22 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 touched | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 broke | compound:prt |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 salute | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 salute | det |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 salute | amod |
| 27 | salute | salute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 broke | obl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 peal | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 peal | det |
| 30 | crashing | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 peal | amod |
| 31 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 peal | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 trumpet | punct |
| 33 | peal | peal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 salute | appos |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 hears | obj |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 37 Viceroy | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Viceroy | det |
| 37 | Viceroy | Viceroy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 hears | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 India | case |
| 39 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Viceroy | nmod |
| 40 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 peal | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Salaamut | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Salaamut | det |
| 43 | Salaamut | Salaamut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 salute | appos |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Keddah | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Keddah | det |
| 46 | Keddah | Keddah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Salaamut | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling up | participle | the whole line not said here | lines's trunks | till the tips | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme | |||
| 2 | touch | past | the whole line | lines's foreheads | last wild yell | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forehead=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | break out | past | the whole line not said here | into the full salute result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into salute=Result | ||||
| 4 | crash | gerund | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | hear | present | the Viceroy of India | the crashing trumpet peal | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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