The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 113
“Nagaina came to the bathroom sluice and called for Nag,” Darzee went on, “and Nag came out on the end of a stick--the sweeper picked him up on the end of a stick and threw him upon the rubbish heap.
Who acts: Nagaina, Darzee, Nag, sweeper · What happens: come, call, go on, come out, pick up, throw · To what, where: bathroom sluice, end, Nag, rubbish heap · 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, Darzee, Nag, sweeper), 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sluice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sluice | det |
| 6 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sluice | compound |
| 7 | sluice | sluice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sluice | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Nag | case |
| 11 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 14 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Nag | cc |
| 20 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 stick | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stick | det |
| 28 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 end | nmod |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 picked | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sweeper | det |
| 31 | sweeper | sweeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 picked | nsubj |
| 32 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stick | acl:relcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 picked | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 picked | compound:prt |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 end | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 end | det |
| 37 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 picked | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 stick | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 stick | det |
| 40 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 end | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 threw | cc |
| 42 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 picked | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 threw | obj |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 47 heap | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 heap | det |
| 46 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 heap | compound |
| 47 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 threw | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | Nagaina | to the bathroom sluice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | participle | the bathroom sluice not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go on | past | Darzee | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come out in a quote | past | Nag | on the end of a stick | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | pick up in a quote | past | the sweeper | Nag | on the end of a stick | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 6 | throw in a quote | past | the sweeper not said here | Nag | the rubbish heap | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon heap=Destination |
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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