The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 144

At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.

Who acts: other · What happens: stand, come down, stop, cut off · To what, where: little village, one end, sweep, valley

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 end	nummod
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 village	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 village	amod
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 other	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jungle	det
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 jungle	amod
15	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 other	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 sweep	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sweep	det
20	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 grounds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grounds	det
23	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grounds	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 grazing	punct
25	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 sweep	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stopped	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stopped	cc
28	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 stopped	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	28 stopped	advmod
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 cut	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cut	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 cut	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 cut	aux:pass
35	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 stopped	advcl
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 cut	compound:prt
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 hoe	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hoe	det
39	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cut	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a little village		at one end		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent village=Theme at end=Destination
2	come down	past	the other		a sweep to the grazing grounds		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sweep=Location
3	stop	past			there			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	cut off	past · perfect · passive		valley			with a hoe	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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