The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 100

“Now I have Nagaina to settle with, and she will be worse than five Nags, and there’s no knowing when the eggs she spoke of will hatch.

Who acts: big man, Nagaina, eggs · What happens: have, settle, be, know, speak, hatch · To what, where: Nagaina, eggs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big man, Nagaina, eggs), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 have	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 settle	mark
7	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	7 settle	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 worse	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 worse	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 worse	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 worse	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 worse	cop
14	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 have	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 Nags	case
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 Nags	nummod
17	Nags	nag	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 worse	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ’s	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ’s	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 ’s	expl
21	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 worse	conj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 knowing	det
23	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ’s	advcl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 hatch	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 eggs	det
26	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hatch	nsubj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spoke	nsubj
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 eggs	acl:relcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 spoke	obl
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hatch	aux
31	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 knowing	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the big man = man	Nagaina	now		tree rules
2	settle in a quote	to-infinitive	Nagaina not said here				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	future	Nagaina			than five Nags; bad property	tree rules
4	know in a quote	gerund	Nagaina not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	speak speech: other in a quote	past	Nagaina	the eggs not said here			tree rules
6	hatch in a quote	future	the eggs				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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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