The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 61

I shouldn’t care to be the man or horse that stood up to Dick and me when we’re in a hurry.”

Who acts: I, man, we · What happens: not care, be, stand up · To what, where: man, Dick, hurry

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, we), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 care	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 care	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 care	advmod
4	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 man	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 man	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 care	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 horse	cc
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 stood	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Dick	case
15	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 me	cc
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 stood	parataxis
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 ’re	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ’re	nsubj
20	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 care	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 hurry	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hurry	det
23	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ’re	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 care	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not care	should	I				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	the man or horse			tree rules
3	stand up	past	the man or horse		Dick		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	present	we			a hurry	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Location

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.

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