The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 131
“Wicked, wicked Darzee!” said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush.
Who acts: Wicked wicked Darzee, Nag · What happens: say, lash up, reach · To what, where: thorn bush · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wicked wicked Darzee, Nag), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Darzee | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wicked | punct |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Darzee | amod |
| 5 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Darzee | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Darzee | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lashing | punct |
| 11 | lashing | lash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 lashing | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 high | advmod |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lashing | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 reach | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reach | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 reach | aux |
| 18 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 high | advcl |
| 19 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 21 nest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nest | det |
| 21 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reach | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bush | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bush | det |
| 24 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bush | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 thorn | punct |
| 26 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reach | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wicked wicked Darzee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lash up | gerund | Wicked wicked Darzee not said here | high property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reach | could | Nag | the thorn bush | toward the nest | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent toward nest=Path |
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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