The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 56

But it was all for the sake of Little Toomai, who had seen what never man had seen before--the dance of the elephants at night and alone in the heart of the Garo hills!

Who acts: Viceroy, sake, man · What happens: be, see, not see, dance · To what, where: dance, elephants

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 (Viceroy, sake, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 sake	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sake	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sake	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 sake	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 sake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sake	det
7	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Little	case
9	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sake	nmod
10	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Little	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seen	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sake	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 seen	obl
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 seen	advmod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 seen	conj
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 seen	advmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 dance	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dance	det
23	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 elephants	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 elephants	det
26	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dance	nmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 heart	cc
30	alone	alone	ADV	_	33 heart	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 heart	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heart	det
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 hills	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hills	det
36	Garo	Garo	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 hills	compound
37	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 heart	nmod
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Viceroy			for the sake; of Little; all property	tree rules
2	see	past · perfect	the sake				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not see	past · perfect	man	the dance of the elephants	night	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	dance			the elephants			nom dance «communication transitive»: of=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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