The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 132

Then they began their flight; and the flight of the Monkey-People through tree-land is one of the things nobody can describe.

Who acts: People, flight, nobody · What happens: begin, be, describe · To what, where: flight, one, things

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, flight, nobody), 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	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flight	nmod:poss
5	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flight	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flight	det
9	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 one	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 People	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 People	det
12	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 People	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Monkey	punct
14	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 flight	nmod
15	through	through	ADP	_	18 land	case
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 land	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 tree	punct
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 People	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 one	cop
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 began	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 things	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 things	det
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 describe	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 describe	aux
26	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 things	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	People	People's flight	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Eventuality
2	is a	present	the flight of the Monkey People through tree land	one		of the things	tree rules
3	describe	can	nobody	the things not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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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