The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 67
That’s what some of our horses do, and I don’t blame them.
Who acts: That, some, I · What happens: be, do, not blame · To what, where: knives
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 (That, some, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 do | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 horses | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blame | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blame | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 blame | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 blame | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 blame | advmod |
| 14 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 what | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 blame | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present | some | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not blame | present · do-support | I | knives = knife | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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