The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 85
It had been raining heavily for one whole month--raining on a camp of thirty thousand men and thousands of camels, elephants, horses, bullocks, and mules all gathered together at a place called Rawal Pindi, to be reviewed by the Viceroy of India.
Who acts: It, mules, Viceroy · What happens: rain, gather, call, review · To what, where: camp, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, mules, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 raining | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raining | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 raining | aux |
| 4 | raining | rain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 4 raining | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 month | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 month | nummod |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 month | amod |
| 9 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raining | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 raining | punct |
| 11 | raining | rain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 raining | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 camp | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 camp | det |
| 14 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raining | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 16 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 thousand | compound |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 men | nummod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 camp | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thousands | cc |
| 20 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 camels | case |
| 22 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 elephants | punct |
| 24 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 camels | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 horses | punct |
| 26 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 camels | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bullocks | punct |
| 28 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 camels | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gathered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gathered | cc |
| 31 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gathered | nsubj |
| 32 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 gathered | advmod |
| 33 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raining | parataxis |
| 34 | together | together | ADV | _ | 33 gathered | advmod |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 place | det |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gathered | obl |
| 38 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 place | acl |
| 39 | Rawal | Rawal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 called | xcomp |
| 40 | Pindi | Pindi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Rawal | flat |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 reviewed | punct |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 reviewed | mark |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 reviewed | aux:pass |
| 44 | reviewed | review | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 gathered | conj |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 Viceroy | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Viceroy | det |
| 47 | Viceroy | Viceroy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 reviewed | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 India | case |
| 49 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Viceroy | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rain | past · perfect · progressive | It | month | heavily property | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||
| 2 | rain | gerund | a camp of thousand men of camels and elephants and horses and bullocks and thousands | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 3 | gather | past | mules | a place | all, together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | call | participle | a place not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | review | to-infinitive · passive | the Viceroy of India | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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