The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 146

“Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?”

Who acts: gentlemen, Two Tails · What happens: feel, eat, fire, be · To what, where: you, big guns

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentlemen, Two Tails), 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	_	11 feel	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 feel	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Do	obj
4	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feel	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 battery	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 battery	det
7	screw	screw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gun	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 screw	punct
9	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 battery	compound
10	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gentlemen	nmod
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 inclined	xcomp
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 fired	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 fired	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fired	aux:pass
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 fired	aux:pass
19	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 eat	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 guns	case
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 guns	case
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 guns	amod
23	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fired	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 you	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 you	cc
26	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 Tails	nummod
27	Tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 you	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 you	cop
29	behind	behind	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 feel	conj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 feel	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present · do-support	gentlemen of the gun battery			inclined property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	gentlemen of the gun battery not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fire in a quote	present · passive		you	big guns		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at gun=Destination
4	is in a quote	present	Two Tails			behind you	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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