The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 42

Now those foolish hunters, whose pay is less than my pay, have spoken to Petersen Sahib of the matter.”

Who acts: pay, foolish hunters, my · What happens: be, speak, pay · To what, where: Petersen Sahib · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pay, foolish hunters, my), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hunters	advmod
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 hunters	det
3	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hunters	amod
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spoken	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 less	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 pay	nmod:poss
7	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 less	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 less	cop
9	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hunters	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 pay	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pay	nmod:poss
12	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 less	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hunters	punct
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 spoken	aux
15	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Sahib	case
17	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Sahib	compound
18	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spoken	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 matter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Sahib	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 spoken	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	pay		than my pay; less property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present · perfect	that foolish hunters	Petersen Sahib of the matter		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to sahib=Co-Agent
3	pay		my			nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=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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