The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 4

And Little Toomai had been spoken to by Petersen Sahib!

Who acts: Petersen · What happens: speak · To what, where: Little · 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 (Petersen), 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	_	6 spoken	cc
2	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spoken	nsubj:pass
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Little	flat
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spoken	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 spoken	aux:pass
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 spoken	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Petersen	case
9	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	obl
10	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Petersen	flat
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive	Petersen	Little					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: «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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