The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 144

The first part of the review was all sunshine, and the regiments went by in wave upon wave of legs all moving together, and guns all in a line, till our eyes grew dizzy.

Who acts: first part, regiments, wave, guns · What happens: be, go, move together, grow, wave · To what, where: sunshine, legs

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first part, regiments, wave, guns), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sunshine	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 review	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 review	det
6	review	review	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sunshine	cop
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sunshine	det
9	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 regiments	det
13	regiments	regiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sunshine	parataxis
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 wave	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 wave	case
17	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 wave	case
19	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wave	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 legs	case
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wave	nmod
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 moving	advmod
23	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 wave	acl
24	together	together	ADV	_	23 moving	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 grew	cc
27	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 grew	nsubj
28	all	all	ADV	_	31 line	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 line	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 line	det
31	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 guns	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 eyes	punct
33	till	till	ADP	_	35 eyes	case
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eyes	nmod:poss
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 grew	nsubj
36	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
37	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grew	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sunshine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the first part of the review	all sunshine		tree rules
2	go	past	the regiments		by wave upon wave of legs	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by wave=Location
3	move together	gerund	wave of legs not said here		all, together property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past	guns in a line		dizzy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wave			legs		nom wave «event 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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