The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 6
“Son of the big man that killed Nag,” she hissed, “stay still.
Who acts: big man, Son · What happens: kill, hiss, stay · To what, where: Nag · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (big man, Son), 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 | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 2 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hissed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Son | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hissed | nsubj |
| 13 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stay | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 stay | punct |
| 16 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hissed | ccomp |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 stay | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | past | the big man | Nag | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nag=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hiss | past | Son of the big man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | infinitive | Son of the big man not said here | still | 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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