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title: If ye find that the Bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhu… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If ye find that the Bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore; Ye need not stop work to inform us: we knew it ten seasons before. Who acts: ye, Bullock, browed Sambhur, we. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 193

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If ye find that the Bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore; Ye need not stop work to inform us: we knew it ten seasons before.

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**Who acts:** ye, Bullock, browed Sambhur, we · **What happens:** find, toss, brow, gore, not stop, inform · **To what, where:** you, work, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Bullock, browed Sambhur, we), 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:pg236:3:193
# text = If ye find that the Bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore; Ye need not stop work to inform us: we knew it ten seasons before.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bullock	Bullock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	toss	toss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	browed	brow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	Sambhur	Sambhur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gore	gore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
20	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
21	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **toss** | can | the Bullock | you |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **brow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gore** | can | the browed Sambhur |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **stop** | present | Ye | work |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality |
| 6 | **inform** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Ye *not said here* | work *not said here* | us |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 7 | **know** | past | we | work |  |  | season | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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