Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 167

But I like Binkie my dog, because He Lnows how to behave; So, Binkie’s the same as the First Friend was, And I am the Man in the Cave.

Who acts: I, Dog · What happens: like, lnow, behave, be · To what, where: Binkie, Man, Cave

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Dog), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 like	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Binkie	Binkie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 like	obj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dog	nmod:poss
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 like	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Lnows	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 Lnows	mark
9	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Lnows	nsubj
10	Lnows	lnow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 like	conj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 behave	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 behave	mark
13	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Lnows	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 ’s	punct
15	So	so	ADV	_	18 ’s	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Binkie	punct
17	Binkie	Binkie	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ’s	nsubj
18	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 like	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 same	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ’s	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	24 Friend	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Friend	det
23	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 Friend	amod
24	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 same	obl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 same	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Man	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 Man	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 Man	nsubj
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 Man	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Man	det
31	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ’s	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 Cave	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Cave	det
34	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Man	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	present	I	Binkie			tree rules
2	lnow	present	Dog				tree rules
3	behave	to-infinitive	Dog not said here				vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	is	past				as the First Friend; same property	tree rules
5	is a	present	I	the Man	the Cave		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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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