The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 90

“What do we care for bones ten years old?”

Who acts: we · What happens: care · To what, where: old

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 care	obj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 bones	case
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 care	obl
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 care	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care in a quote	present · do-support	we	old				for bones	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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