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title: “You could put a whole regiment of Dicks on my back without making m… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You could put a whole regiment of Dicks on my back without making me feel any better. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 4

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“You could put a whole regiment of Dicks on my back without making me feel any better.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** put, make, feel · **To what, where:** whole regiment, back, troop horse

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:20:4
# text = “You could put a whole regiment of Dicks on my back without making me feel any better.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	regiment	regiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Dicks	dick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	any	any	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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