The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 97

Some of ye are eaters of cattle, and of others I have heard that, under Shere Khan’s teaching, ye go by dark night and snatch children from the villager’s doorstep.

Who acts: Some, I, ye, Shere · What happens: be, hear, go, snatch, teach · To what, where: eaters, that, children, doorstep

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 (Some, I, ye, Shere), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 eaters	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 ye	case
3	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Some	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eaters	cop
5	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 cattle	case
7	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eaters	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 others	case
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heard	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 eaters	parataxis
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 heard	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 teaching	punct
17	under	under	ADP	_	21 teaching	case
18	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 teaching	nmod:poss
19	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Shere	flat
20	’s	's	PART	_	18 Shere	case
21	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
23	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 go	nsubj
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eaters	parataxis
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 night	case
26	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 night	amod
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 snatch	cc
29	snatch	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 go	conj
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 snatch	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	35 doorstep	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 villager	det
33	villager	villager	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 doorstep	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 villager	case
35	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 snatch	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eaters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Some	eaters			of cattle	tree rules
2	hear	present · perfect	I	that			of others	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	go	present	ye			night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	snatch	present	ye not said here	children	the villager's doorstep			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from doorstep=Source
5	teach		Shere					nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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