The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 112
But where’s Nagaina?” said Rikki-tikki, looking carefully round him.
Who acts: Nagaina · What happens: be, say, look · To what, where: Rikki tikki · 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 (Nagaina), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 where | cc |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 where | cop |
| 4 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nagaina | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nagaina | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tikki | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rikki | punct |
| 10 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 13 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 looking | advmod |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Nagaina | Rikki tikki | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tikki=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | gerund | Nagaina not said here | round tikki; carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=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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