The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 193

If ye find that the Bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore; Ye need not stop work to inform us: we knew it ten seasons before.

Who acts: ye, Bullock, browed Sambhur, we · What happens: find, toss, brow, gore, not stop, inform · To what, where: you, work, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Bullock, browed Sambhur, we), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 find	mark
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stop	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 toss	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bullock	det
6	Bullock	Bullock	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 toss	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 toss	aux
8	toss	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 find	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 toss	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gore	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 gore	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sambhur	det
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 browed	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 heavy	punct
15	browed	brow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Sambhur	amod
16	Sambhur	Sambhur	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 gore	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 gore	aux
18	gore	gore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 toss	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct
20	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 stop	nsubj
21	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stop	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 stop	advmod
23	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stop	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 inform	mark
26	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 work	acl
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 inform	iobj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stop	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knew	obj
32	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 seasons	nummod
33	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 knew	obj
34	before	before	ADV	_	30 knew	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find a condition, not said to happen	present	ye					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	toss	can	the Bullock	you				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	brow	participle						tree rules
4	gore	can	the browed Sambhur					tree rules
5	not stop	present	Ye	work				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality
6	inform speech: other	to-infinitive	Ye not said here	work not said here	us			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
7	know	past	we	work		season	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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