The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 23

I met my mates in the morning (and, oh, but I am old!)

Who acts: I · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: mates

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. 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	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mates	nmod:poss
4	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 met	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 old	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 old	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	oh	oh	INTJ	_	16 old	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 oh	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 old	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 old	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 old	cop
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morning	amod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 old	punct
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	I	my mates			morning		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Co-Agent
2	is	present	I					old property	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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