The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 20

This was one of very many things that Kotick learned, and he was always learning.

Who acts: This, Kotick · What happens: be, learn · To what, where: one, many things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Kotick), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 things	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 learned	obj
9	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 learned	nsubj
10	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 things	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 learning	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 learning	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 learning	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 learning	aux
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 learning	advmod
16	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 learned	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	one	of many things	tree rules
2	learn	past	Kotick	many things		tree rules
3	learn	past · progressive	Kotick		always property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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