The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 56
“When the house is emptied of people,” said Nagaina to her husband, “he will have to go away, and then the garden will be our own again.
Who acts: Nagaina, brick, garden · What happens: empty, say, have, go away, be · To what, where: house, husband · 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 (Nagaina, brick, garden), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 emptied | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 emptied | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 emptied | aux:pass |
| 6 | emptied | empty | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 emptied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 emptied | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 emptied | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 husband | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 have | xcomp |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 own | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 own | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 own | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 garden | det |
| 28 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 own | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 own | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 own | cop |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 own | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 own | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | empty in a quote | present · passive | the house | of people | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of people=Source | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Nagaina | Nagaina's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | future | brick | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go away in a quote | to-infinitive | brick not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | future | the garden | then; again | own property | 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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