The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 102

It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council when thou wast a little naked cub.

Who acts: collar, I · What happens: be, pay · To what, where: price, Council

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 (collar, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 this	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 this	cop
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 this	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 because	fixed
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 paid	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 paid	nsubj
8	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 this	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 price	det
10	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paid	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 thee	case
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 price	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 Council	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Council	det
15	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 price	nmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 wast	advmod
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 wast	nsubj
18	wast	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 paid	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cub	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cub	amod
21	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cub	amod
22	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wast	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 this	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	collar					because this	tree rules
2	pay	past	I	the price		the Council		for thee	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient price=Asset

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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