The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 106

And because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

Who acts: I · What happens: learn, become · To what, where: ways

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 learned	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 learned	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	aux
5	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 became	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ways	det
7	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learned	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 men	case
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ways	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 learned	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 terrible	advmod
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 jungle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 jungle	det
17	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 terrible	obl
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 Shere	case
19	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 jungle	nmod
20	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Shere	flat
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · perfect	I	the ways of men					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	become	past	I					terrible property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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