The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 11
Oh, foolish people, who killed my Nag!”
Who acts: foolish people · What happens: kill · To what, where: Nag
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish people), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 foolish | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 killed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 killed | nsubj |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Nag | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Nag | nag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | foolish people | my Nag | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nag=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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