--- title: “Generally I have to go in among a lot of yelling, hairy men with kn… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Generally I have to go in among a lot of yelling, hairy men with knives--long shiny knives, worse than the farrier’s knives--and I have to take care that Dick’s boot is just touching the next man’s boot without crushing it. Who acts: troop horse, that. 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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 (troop horse, that), 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:pg236:19:59 # text = “Generally I have to go in among a lot of yelling, hairy men with knives--long shiny knives, worse than the farrier’s knives--and I have to take care that Dick’s boot is just touching the next man’s boot without crushing it. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Generally generally ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 in in ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 among among ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 yelling yelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 hairy hairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 knives knife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 -- -- PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 knives knife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 conj _ _ 24 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 farrier farrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 knives knife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 37 Dick Dick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’s 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 just just ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’s 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 48 without without SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 49 crushing crush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the troop horse *= horse* | | | | | generally *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go in** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the troop horse *= horse* *not said here* | | | a lot of yelling hairy men with knives and long shiny knives | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among lot=Location | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the troop horse *= horse* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the troop horse *= horse* *not said here* | care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 5 | **touch** *in a quote* | present · progressive | that | the next man's boot | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boot=Co-Theme | | 6 | **crush** *in a quote* | gerund | the troop horse *= horse* *not said here* | boot | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/60/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/)