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title: Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have who lis… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have who listens to the most silent of all living things--the wild elephant. Who acts: Petersen, man. 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 78

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Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have who listens to the most silent of all living things--the wild elephant.

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**Who acts:** Petersen, man · **What happens:** have, listen, live · **To what, where:** ears

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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 (Petersen, man), 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:pg236:16:78
# text = Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have who listens to the most silent of all living things--the wild elephant.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Petersen | ears |  |  | now | over cock | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | must | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the silent | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to silent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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