The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 88

I should want to charge--with Dick.”

Who acts: I · What happens: want, charge · To what, where: Dick

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), 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	3 want	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 charge	mark
5	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 Dick	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Dick	case
8	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 charge	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	should	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	charge not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	Dick					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dick=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/88/