--- title: We’ve broken out of our pickets, again and again, four hundred and f… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: We’ve broken out of our pickets, again and again, four hundred and fifty of us, just because a new recruit got to telling tales of whip snakes at home in Australia till we were scared to death of the loose ends of our head-ropes.” Who acts: We, new recruit, whip snakes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, new recruit, whip snakes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:19:41 # text = We’ve broken out of our pickets, again and again, four hundred and fifty of us, just because a new recruit got to telling tales of whip snakes at home in Australia till we were scared to death of the loose ends of our head-ropes.” 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ’ve have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 pickets picket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 recruit recruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 to to SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 28 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 whip whip NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 till till SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 48 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break out** | present · perfect | We | our pickets | | | again | four hundred *obl* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picket=Patient | | 2 | **get** | past | a new recruit | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a new recruit *not said here* | tales of whip snakes | | home in Australia | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | past | we | | | | of the loose ends of our head ropes | to death; scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** | | whip snakes | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/42/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/)