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title: Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this, and once or twice he told Mowgli in so many words that Shere Khan would kill him some day. Who acts: Bagheera, Shere. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 74

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Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this, and once or twice he told Mowgli in so many words that Shere Khan would kill him some day.

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**Who acts:** Bagheera, Shere · **What happens:** have, know, tell, kill · **To what, where:** eyes, something, Mowgli, many words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bagheera, Shere), 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:pg236:2:74
# text = Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this, and once or twice he told Mowgli in so many words that Shere Khan would kill him some day.
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	iobj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
27	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | Bagheera | eyes and ears |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | past |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Bagheera |  | Mowgli | many words |  | once *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mowgli=Recipient |
| 4 | **kill** | would | Shere | many words |  |  | day |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer he=Result |

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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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