The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 121

“What is it, O Killer of the terrible Nag?”

What happens: be · To what, where: sake

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: 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	_	2 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 What	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Killer	punct
6	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 Killer	case
7	Killer	Killer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 What	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Nag	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Nag	det
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Nag	amod
11	Nag	nag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Killer	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Killer	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		sake					tree rules

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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