The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 27

I met my mates in the morning (I’ll never meet them more!); They came and went in legions that darkened all the shore.

Who acts: I, mates, legions · What happens: meet, 'll, not meet, come, go, darken · To what, where: mates, legions, shore

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, mates, legions), 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	_	10 ’ll	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 ’ll	nsubj
10	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 met	parataxis
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 meet	advmod
12	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ’ll	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 meet	obj
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 meet	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 legions	case
23	legions	legion	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 went	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 darkened	nsubj
25	darkened	darken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 legions	acl:relcl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 shore	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shore	det
28	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 darkened	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	meet	past	I	my mates		morning	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Co-Agent
2	'll	present	I				tree rules
3	not meet	present	I not said here	mates = mate			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
4	come	past	mates = mate				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	mates = mate not said here		legions		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in legion=Location
6	darken	past	legions	all shore			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shore=Patient

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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