The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 120

We eat beef--a thing that no cattle-driver touches--and of course the cattle do not like it.

Who acts: We, cattle driver · What happens: eat, touch, not like · To what, where: beef, thing, driver

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 (We, cattle driver), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beef	appos
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 touches	obj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 driver	det
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 driver	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 cattle	punct
11	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touches	nsubj
12	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 like	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 like	cc
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 cattle	case
16	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 of	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cattle	det
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 like	obl
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 like	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 like	advmod
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 like	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	We	beef		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beef=Patient
2	touch	present	no cattle driver	a thing		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme
3	not like	present · do-support	We not said here	driver	of the cattle	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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