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title: We eat beef--a thing that no cattle-driver touches--and of course th… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We eat beef--a thing that no cattle-driver touches--and of course the cattle do not like it. Who acts: We, cattle driver. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 120

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We eat beef--a thing that no cattle-driver touches--and of course the cattle do not like it.

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**Who acts:** We, cattle driver · **What happens:** eat, touch, not like · **To what, where:** beef, thing, driver

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, cattle driver), 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:pg236:20:120
# text = We eat beef--a thing that no cattle-driver touches--and of course the cattle do not like it.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | We | beef |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beef=Patient |
| 2 | **touch** | present | no cattle driver | a thing |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | We *not said here* | driver |  |  |  | of the cattle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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