The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 77
Nagaina--do you hear me?--I shall wait here in the cool till daytime.”
Who acts: Nagaina, I · What happens: hear, wait · To what, where: me
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, I), 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 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nagaina | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wait | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | aux |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hear | conj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 wait | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cool | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cool | det |
| 15 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wait | advcl |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 daytime | case |
| 17 | daytime | daytime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cool | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · do-support | Nagaina | me | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wait | shall | I | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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