The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 128

Besides, white men who haven’t a place to sleep in are more than likely to be thieves, and I’ve a good deal of Government property on my back.

Who acts: white men, I · What happens: have, sleep in, be, deal · To what, where: place, thieves, good deal, back, Government property

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 (white men, 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	4 men	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 more	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 men	acl:relcl
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 place	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sleep	mark
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 place	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	11 sleep	obl
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 more	cop
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 likely	case
16	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 more	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 thieves	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 thieves	cop
19	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 likely	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ’ve	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ’ve	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ’ve	nsubj
23	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 more	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 deal	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 deal	amod
26	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’ve	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 property	case
28	Government	Government	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 property	compound
29	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deal	nmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 back	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 back	nmod:poss
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’ve	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	white men	a place			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
2	sleep in	to-infinitive	white men not said here	a place not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	white men			more property	tree rules
4	be		white men not said here				tree rules
5	is a	to-infinitive	white men not said here	thieves			tree rules
6	have	present	I	a good deal of Government property	my back		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
7	deal			Government property			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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