The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 41
An elephant’s trumpeting is always nasty, especially on a dark night.
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: 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trumpeting | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 elephant | case |
| 4 | trumpeting | trumpeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nasty | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nasty | aux |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 nasty | advmod |
| 7 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 night | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 night | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 night | amod |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nasty | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nasty | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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