The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 147

“About as much as we feel inclined to sit down and let men sprawl all over us, or run into people with knives.

Who acts: we, men · What happens: feel, sit down, let, sprawl, run · To what, where: men

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 (we, men), 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	_	4 much	punct
2	About	about	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 feel	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 feel	nsubj
7	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 much	advcl
8	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feel	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sit	mark
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 inclined	xcomp
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sit	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sit	conj
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 let	obj
15	sprawl	sprawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 us	advmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sprawl	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 run	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 run	cc
21	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sit	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 people	case
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 run	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 knives	case
25	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 run	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present	we		inclined property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	sit down in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	men		tree rules
4	sprawl in a quote	infinitive	men not said here		over us	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over we=Location
5	run in a quote	infinitive	we not said here		into people result; with knives	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into people=Result

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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