The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 52
From the walls came a moan like the wind in the tree-tops--“We see, O Kaa.”
Who acts: We · What happens: come, see · To what, where: moan, walls, Kaa
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 (We), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 walls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walls | det |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moan | det |
| 6 | moan | moan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 wind | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moan | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tops | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tops | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tops | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 14 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 17 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Kaa | punct |
| 20 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 21 Kaa | discourse |
| 21 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a moan | the walls | like the wind; in the tree tops | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moan=Theme | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | We | Kaa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kaa=Stimulus |
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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