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title: Petersen Sahib ate alone in his tent, but he gave orders that the ca… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Petersen Sahib ate alone in his tent, but he gave orders that the camp should have two sheep and some fowls, as well as a double ration of flour and rice and salt, for he knew that there would be a feast. Who acts: Petersen, camp, feast. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 33

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Petersen Sahib ate alone in his tent, but he gave orders that the camp should have two sheep and some fowls, as well as a double ration of flour and rice and salt, for he knew that there would be a feast.

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**Who acts:** Petersen, camp, feast · **What happens:** eat, give, have, know, be · **To what, where:** tent, orders, two sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petersen, camp, feast), 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:pg236:18:33
# text = Petersen Sahib ate alone in his tent, but he gave orders that the camp should have two sheep and some fowls, as well as a double ration of flour and rice and salt, for he knew that there would be a feast.
1	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	cc	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ration	ration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	43	expl	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Petersen |  |  | Petersen's tent |  | alone *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | Petersen | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | should | the camp | two sheep and some fowls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | past | camp |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | would | a feast |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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