The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 107
“Nag is dead--is dead--is dead!” sang Darzee.
Who acts: Nag, Darzee · What happens: be, sing · 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 (Nag, Darzee), 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 dead | punct |
| 2 | Nag | nag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sang | ccomp |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dead | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dead | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sang | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Nag | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Nag not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Nag not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | Darzee | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/14/107/