The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 187
And this our marching-song: _Can’t!
Who acts: our · What happens: sing
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 (our), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 song | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 song | nsubj |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 song | nmod:poss |
| 4 | marching | marching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 song | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 marching | punct |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ca | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ca | punct |
| 9 | Ca | Ca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 song | nmod |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 Ca | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing | our | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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