Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 138

But still I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.’

Who acts: I, Cat, places · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: Cat, me

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cat, places), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 Cat	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	6 Cat	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Cat	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Cat	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cat	det
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 walks	nsubj
8	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Cat	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 walks	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 alike	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 alike	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 places	det
14	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 alike	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 alike	cop
16	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 walks	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 alike	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Cat	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Cat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the Cat		still		tree rules
2	walk	present	the Cat				by Cat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory
3	is	present	all places		me		alike 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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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