The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 40

Hear what little Red-Eye saith: “Nag, come up and dance with death!”

Who acts: you, little Red · What happens: hear, say, come up, dance · To what, where: Nag · 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 (you, little Red), 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	Hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 saith	obj
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Red	amod
4	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saith	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Eye	punct
6	Eye	Eye	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Red	conj
7	saith	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hear	advcl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Nag	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Nag	punct
10	Nag	nag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saith	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hear	parataxis
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dance	cc
15	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dance	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Hear	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	imperative	you not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	little Red and Eye	Nag		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme nag=Manner
3	come up in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance in a quote	infinitive			with death	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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