The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 33

There was a clamor of scores of voices, saying: “What matter?

Who acts: clamor · What happens: be, say, matter, clamor, score · To what, where: scores, voices · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clamor), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clamor	det
4	clamor	clamor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 scores	case
6	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clamor	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 voices	case
8	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scores	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 matter	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 matter	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 matter	nsubj
14	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a clamor of scores of voices		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	gerund	a clamor of scores of voices not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	matter in a quote					tree rules
4	clamor			scores of voices		nom clamor «event transitive»: of=patient
5	score			voices		nom score «cognition 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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