The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 70

Free People, he was my meat from the first.

Who acts: Free People · What happens: be · To what, where: meat, first

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Free People), 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	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 People	amod
2	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 meat	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 People	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 meat	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 meat	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 meat	nmod:poss
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 first	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 first	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 meat	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 meat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Free People	my meat		the first			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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