The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 150

Baloo looked up to see where the voice came from, and there was Rann the Kite, sweeping down with the sun shining on the upturned flanges of his wings.

Who acts: Baloo, voice, Rann, sun · What happens: look up, see, come, be, sweep down, shine · To what, where: upturned flanges

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baloo, voice, Rann, sun), 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	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	xcomp
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 came	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 voice	det
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	9 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 was	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
15	Rann	Rann	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Kite	det
17	Kite	Kite	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Rann	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sweeping	punct
19	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 Rann	acl
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 sweeping	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sun	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sweeping	obl
24	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 sun	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 flanges	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 flanges	det
27	upturned	upturned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flanges	amod
28	flanges	flange	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shining	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 wings	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wings	nmod:poss
31	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 flanges	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look up	past	Baloo			tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Baloo not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	past	the voice			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	past	Rann	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sweep down	gerund	Rann not said here		with the sun; down property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shine	gerund	the sun not said here	the upturned flanges of Rann's wings		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flange=Location

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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