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title: “About as much as we feel inclined to sit down and let men sprawl al… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “About as much as we feel inclined to sit down and let men sprawl all over us, or run into people with knives. Who acts: we, men. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 147

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“About as much as we feel inclined to sit down and let men sprawl all over us, or run into people with knives.

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**Who acts:** we, men · **What happens:** feel, sit down, let, sprawl, run · **To what, where:** men

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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 (we, men), 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:pg236:19:147
# text = “About as much as we feel inclined to sit down and let men sprawl all over us, or run into people with knives.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	About	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	sprawl	sprawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | we |  |  |  |  | inclined *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit down** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sprawl** *in a quote* | infinitive | men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over us | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over we=Location |
| 5 | **run** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into people *result*; with knives | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into people=Result |

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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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