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title: Some of ye are eaters of cattle, and of others I have heard that, un… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of ye are eaters of cattle, and of others I have heard that, under Shere Khan’s teaching, ye go by dark night and snatch children from the villager’s doorstep. Who acts: Some, I, ye, Shere. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 97

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Some of ye are eaters of cattle, and of others I have heard that, under Shere Khan’s teaching, ye go by dark night and snatch children from the villager’s doorstep.

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**Who acts:** Some, I, ye, Shere · **What happens:** be, hear, go, snatch, teach · **To what, where:** eaters, that, children, doorstep

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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 (Some, I, ye, Shere), 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:pg236:3:97
# text = Some of ye are eaters of cattle, and of others I have heard that, under Shere Khan’s teaching, ye go by dark night and snatch children from the villager’s doorstep.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	eaters	eater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
21	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	snatch	snatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	villager	villager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Some | eaters |  |  |  | of cattle | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | I | that |  |  |  | of others | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | present | ye |  |  |  | night |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **snatch** | present | ye *not said here* | children |  | the villager's doorstep |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from doorstep=Source |
| 5 | **teach** |  | Shere |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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