The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 33
I met my mates in the morning, a broken, scattered band.
Who acts: I · What happens: meet, break · 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 | _ | 13 band | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 band | det |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 band | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 band | punct |
| 12 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 13 band | amod |
| 13 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 morning | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | 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 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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