The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 109
The big man brought the bang-stick, and Nag fell in two pieces!
Who acts: big man, Nag · What happens: bring, fall · To what, where: bang stick, two pieces
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, 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 6 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stick | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bang | punct |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 11 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pieces | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pieces | nummod |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the big man | the bang stick | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Nag | two pieces | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in piece=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.
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