The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 160

Then the advance stopped dead, the ground stood still, the whole line saluted, and thirty bands began to play all together.

Who acts: advance, ground, whole line, thirty bands · What happens: stop, stand, salute, begin, play

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 (advance, ground, whole line, thirty bands), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stopped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 advance	det
3	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stopped	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
10	still	still	ADV	_	9 stood	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saluted	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 line	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 line	amod
14	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saluted	nsubj
15	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 bands	nummod
19	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 play	mark
22	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 together	advmod
24	together	together	ADV	_	22 play	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the advance	then	dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	stand	past	the ground	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	salute	past	the whole line			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	thirty bands			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	play	to-infinitive	thirty bands not said here		together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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