The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 131

We do not climb like cats nor run like calves.

Who acts: We · What happens: not climb, run

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 climb	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 climb	advmod
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climb	obl
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 run	cc
8	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 calves	case
10	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 run	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	present · do-support	We					like cats	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	present	We not said here					like calves	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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