The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 15

It makes me want to run--when I haven’t Dick on my back.”

Who acts: snort, me, I · What happens: make, want, run, not have, dick · To what, where: me, back

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 (snort, me, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 have	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	parataxis
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 have	advmod
12	Dick	dick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Dick	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	snort	me		tree rules
2	want	infinitive	me not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not have	present	I			tree rules
5	dick	infinitive	I not said here		my back	tree rules

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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