The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 22

He knew that he and his father and his grandfather had done the very same thing hundreds of times before.

Who acts: Toomai · What happens: know, do · To what, where: same thing hundreds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toomai), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 father	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 he	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grandfather	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grandfather	nmod:poss
10	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 he	conj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 knew	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hundreds	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 same	advmod
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hundreds	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hundreds	compound
17	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 done	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 times	case
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hundreds	nmod
20	before	before	ADV	_	12 done	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Toomai						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	past · perfect	Toomai	the same thing hundreds of times				before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Eventuality

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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