The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 4
“You could put a whole regiment of Dicks on my back without making me feel any better.
Who acts: You · What happens: put, make, feel · To what, where: whole regiment, back, troop horse
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 (You), 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 | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 regiment | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 regiment | amod |
| 7 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Dicks | case |
| 9 | Dicks | dick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 regiment | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 making | mark |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 put | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 making | iobj |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 making | xcomp |
| 17 | any | any | ADV | _ | 18 better | advmod |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 feel | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | could | You | a whole regiment of Dicks | my back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent regiment=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | gerund | You not said here | the troop horse = horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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