The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 21, sentence 4

While the men that walk beside, Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed, Cannot tell why we or they March and suffer day by day.

Who acts: men, we · What happens: walk, not tell, suffer · To what, where: Dusty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, we), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 men	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tell	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 walk	nsubj
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 men	acl:relcl
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 Dusty	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Dusty	punct
8	Dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walk	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 silent	punct
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Dusty	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eyed	punct
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eyed	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 heavy	punct
14	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Dusty	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 men	punct
16	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 tell	advmod
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 suffer	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 suffer	nsubj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 March	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 March	nsubj
23	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 we	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 suffer	cc
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	ccomp
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suffer	obl:unmarked
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 day	case
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suffer	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	the men	Dusty			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside dusty=Trajectory
2	not tell speech: assert	can				while the men	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suffer	present	we		day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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