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title: Besides, white men who haven’t a place to sleep in are more than lik… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides, white men who haven’t a place to sleep in are more than likely to be thieves, and I’ve a good deal of Government property on my back. Who acts: white men, I. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 128

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Besides, white men who haven’t a place to sleep in are more than likely to be thieves, and I’ve a good deal of Government property on my back.

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**Who acts:** white men, I · **What happens:** have, sleep in, be, deal · **To what, where:** place, thieves, good deal, back, Government property

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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 (white men, I), 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:pg236:20:128
# text = Besides, white men who haven’t a place to sleep in are more than likely to be thieves, and I’ve a good deal of Government property on my back.
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | white men | a place |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **sleep in** | to-infinitive | white men *not said here* | a place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | white men |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | white men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | white men *not said here* | thieves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | present | I | a good deal of Government property |  | my back |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient |
| 7 | **deal** |  |  | Government property |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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