The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 179

By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of tunes Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons, And it’s sweeter than “Stables” or “Water” to me-- The Cavalry Canter of “Bonnie Dundee”!

Who acts: brand, shoulder · What happens: play, be · To what, where: finest, me

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brand, shoulder), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 brand	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brand	det
3	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 played	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 shoulder	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shoulder	nmod:poss
6	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brand	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brand	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 finest	det
9	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 played	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 tunes	case
11	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 finest	obl
12	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 played	aux:pass
13	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 Lancers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Lancers	det
16	Lancers	lancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 played	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Hussars	punct
18	Hussars	hussar	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Lancers	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Dragoons	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Dragoons	cc
21	Dragoons	dragoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Lancers	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sweeter	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 sweeter	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sweeter	nsubj
25	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sweeter	cop
26	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 played	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 Stables	case
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Stables	punct
29	Stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sweeter	obl
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 Stables	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 Water	cc
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 Water	punct
33	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Stables	conj
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 Water	punct
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sweeter	obl
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 Canter	punct
38	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Cavalry	det
39	Cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Canter	nmod:desc
40	Canter	Canter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 played	parataxis
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 Dundee	case
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	44 Dundee	punct
43	Bonnie	Bonnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Dundee	compound
44	Dundee	Dundee	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Canter	nmod
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	40 Canter	punct
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · passive	the brand on my shoulder	the finest				by the Lancers and Hussars and Dragoons	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	present	shoulder		me			than Stables or Water; sweet property	tree rules

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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