Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 169
But Binkie will play whatever I choose, And he is my true First Friend.
Who acts: Binkie, I · What happens: play, choose, be · To what, where: whatever, true First Friend
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 (Binkie, I), 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 | _ | 4 play | cc |
| 2 | Binkie | Binkie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 play | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | aux |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 play | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 choose | nsubj |
| 7 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Friend | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Friend | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 Friend | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Friend | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Friend | amod |
| 14 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 Friend | amod |
| 15 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | future | Binkie | whatever | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | I | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Binkie | my true First Friend | 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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