The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 104
The news of Nag’s death was all over the garden, for the sweeper had thrown the body on the rubbish-heap.
Who acts: news, Nag · What happens: be, throw, die · To what, where: garden, sweeper, rubbish heap
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 (news, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 garden | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 4 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 death | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Nag | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 news | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 garden | cop |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 garden | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thrown | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 thrown | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sweeper | det |
| 15 | sweeper | sweeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thrown | aux |
| 17 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 garden | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrown | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 heap | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 heap | det |
| 22 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heap | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 rubbish | punct |
| 24 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrown | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 garden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the news of Nag's death | the garden | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | throw | past · perfect · passive | the sweeper | the rubbish heap | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination body=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | Nag | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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