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title: By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of tunes Is played by the La… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of tunes Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons, And it’s sweeter than “Stables” or “Water” to me-- The Cavalry Canter of “Bonnie Dundee”! Who acts: brand, shoulder. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with it
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 179

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By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of tunes Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons, And it’s sweeter than “Stables” or “Water” to me-- The Cavalry Canter of “Bonnie Dundee”!

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**Who acts:** brand, shoulder · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** finest, me

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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 (brand, shoulder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:20:179
# text = By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of tunes Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons, And it’s sweeter than “Stables” or “Water” to me-- The Cavalry Canter of “Bonnie Dundee”!
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Lancers	lancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Hussars	hussar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Dragoons	dragoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:desc	_	_
40	Canter	Canter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Bonnie	Bonnie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Dundee	Dundee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · passive | the brand on my shoulder | the finest |  |  |  | by the Lancers and Hussars and Dragoons | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | shoulder |  | me |  |  | than Stables or Water; sweet *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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