The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 137
So she flew off from the nest, and left Darzee to keep the babies warm, and continue his song about the death of Nag.
Who acts: wife, Darzee, Nag · What happens: fly off, leave, keep, continue, sing, die · To what, where: nest, Darzee, babies, song
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 (wife, Darzee, Nag), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 flew | compound:prt |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 nest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nest | det |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 left | cc |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 11 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 left | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 babies | det |
| 15 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 continue | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 continue | cc |
| 19 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 flew | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 song | nmod:poss |
| 21 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 continue | obj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 death | det |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 continue | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Nag | case |
| 26 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 death | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | wife | the nest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nest=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | wife not said here | Darzee | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent darzee=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | wife not said here | the babies | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||
| 4 | continue | infinitive | wife not said here | Darzee's song | about the death of Nag | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent song=Theme | |||
| 5 | sing | Darzee | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | die | Nag | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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