The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 120
“For the great, the beautiful Rikki-tikki’s sake I will stop,” said Darzee.
Who acts: great sake, Darzee · What happens: stop, say · 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 (great sake, 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 | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 great | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 great | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sake | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tikki | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tikki | amod |
| 8 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tikki | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rikki | punct |
| 10 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sake | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 tikki | case |
| 12 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stop | aux |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | future | the beautiful Rikki tikki's great sake | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Darzee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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