The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 52
“That’s Nag or Nagaina,” he said to himself, “and he is crawling into the bath-room sluice.
Who acts: Nag · What happens: say, crawl · To what, where: Nag, room sluice · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nag | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Nag | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 That | case |
| 4 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 Nagaina | cc |
| 6 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nag | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nag | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nag | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crawling | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 crawling | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crawling | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 crawling | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 crawling | aux |
| 18 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sluice | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sluice | det |
| 21 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 room | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 bath | punct |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sluice | compound |
| 24 | sluice | sluice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crawling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nag or Nagaina | Nag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | crawl in a quote | present · progressive | Nag | the room sluice | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sluice=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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