The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 119
Stop singing a minute, Darzee.”
Who acts: you · What happens: stop, sing
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 (you), 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 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stop | xcomp |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 singing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Darzee | punct |
| 6 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Stop | parataxis |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stop | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | you not said here | minute | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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