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title: “Wicked, wicked Darzee!” said Nag, lashing up as high as he could re… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wicked, wicked Darzee!” said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush. Who acts: Wicked wicked Darzee, Nag. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 131

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“Wicked, wicked Darzee!” said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush.

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**Who acts:** Wicked wicked Darzee, Nag · **What happens:** say, lash up, reach · **To what, where:** thorn bush · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wicked wicked Darzee, Nag), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:13:131
# text = “Wicked, wicked Darzee!” said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	lashing	lash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wicked wicked Darzee |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lash up** | gerund | Wicked wicked Darzee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **reach** | could | Nag |  |  | the thorn bush |  | toward the nest | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent toward nest=Path |

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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.

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**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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