The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 172
Then they banged the temple bells and blew the conches louder than ever.
Who acts: villagers · What happens: bang, blow · To what, where: temple bells, conches
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (villagers), 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 banged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 banged | nsubj |
| 3 | banged | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bells | det |
| 5 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bells | compound |
| 6 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 banged | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blew | cc |
| 8 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 banged | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 conches | det |
| 10 | conches | conche | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blew | obj |
| 11 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 blew | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 ever | case |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 louder | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 banged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bang | past | villagers = villager | the temple bells | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | |||
| 2 | blow | past | villagers = villager not said here | the conches | loud property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent conche=Patient |
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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