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title: Now those foolish hunters, whose pay is less than my pay, have spoke… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 42

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:16:42
# text = Now those foolish hunters, whose pay is less than my pay, have spoken to Petersen Sahib of the matter.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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