The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 59
“But are you sure that there is anything to be gained by killing the people?” said Nag.
Who acts: you, anything, Nag · What happens: be, gain, kill, say · To what, where: people · 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 (you, anything, 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 | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 sure | cc |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 is | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 is | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 gained | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gained | aux:pass |
| 12 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 anything | acl |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 killing | mark |
| 14 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 gained | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 killing | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gain in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | anything not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V» | |||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | gerund | anything not said here | the people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | Nag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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