The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 19

“I don’t want to run, but I don’t want to talk about it.”

Who acts: Billy · What happens: not want, run, talk

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 (Billy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 run	mark
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 want	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 want	advmod
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 talk	mark
15	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 talk	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not want in a quote	present · do-support	Billy		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	run not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Billy not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not want in a quote	present · do-support	Billy		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	talk not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Billy not said here	about snort	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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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