The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 185

We haven’t a camelty tune of our own To help us trollop along, But every neck is a hair trombone (_Rtt-ta-ta-ta!

Who acts: We, us, neck, Rtt · What happens: have, help, trollop, be, ta · To what, where: camelty tune, us, hair trombone

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 (We, us, neck, Rtt), 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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tune	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tune	det
5	camelty	camelty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tune	amod
6	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tune	nmod
10	To	to	PART	_	11 help	mark
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tune	acl
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 help	obj
13	trollop	trollop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 help	xcomp
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 trollop	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trombone	punct
16	But	but	CCONJ	_	22 trombone	cc
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 neck	det
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trombone	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 trombone	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 trombone	det
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trombone	compound
22	trombone	trombone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	conj
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 ta	punct
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 ta	punct
25	Rtt	Rtt	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 ta	nsubj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Rtt	punct
27	ta	ta	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Rtt	appos
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 ta	punct
29	ta	ta	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ta	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 ta	punct
31	ta	ta	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trombone	appos
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 ta	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	We	a camelty tune of our own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Patient
2	help	to-infinitive	We not said here	us		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	trollop	infinitive	us not said here		along property	tree rules
4	is a	present	every neck	a hair trombone		tree rules
5	ta		Rtt			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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