The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 85
“I can’t always obey, because I’m betwixt and between.
Who acts: Two Tails · What happens: obey, be
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 (Two Tails), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 obey | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ca | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 obey | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ca | advmod |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 obey | advmod |
| 6 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 ’m | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’m | nsubj |
| 10 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 obey | conj |
| 11 | betwixt | betwixt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ’m | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 between | cc |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 betwixt | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey in a quote | can | always property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | Two Tails = tail | betwixt property | vn exist-47.1 «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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