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title: “Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?” Who acts: gentlemen, Two Tails. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 146

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“Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?”

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**Who acts:** gentlemen, Two Tails · **What happens:** feel, eat, fire, be · **To what, where:** you, big guns

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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 (gentlemen, Two Tails), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:19:146
# text = “Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	screw	screw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	Tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | present · do-support | gentlemen of the gun battery |  |  |  |  | inclined *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | gentlemen of the gun battery *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fire** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | you |  | big guns |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at gun=Destination |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Two Tails |  |  |  |  | behind you | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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