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title: Then I heard an old grizzled, long-haired Central Asian chief, who h… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I heard an old grizzled, long-haired Central Asian chief, who had come down with the Amir, asking questions of a native officer. Who acts: I, old grizzled haired Central Asian chief. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 164

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Then I heard an old grizzled, long-haired Central Asian chief, who had come down with the Amir, asking questions of a native officer.

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**Who acts:** I, old grizzled haired Central Asian chief · **What happens:** hear, come down, ask · **To what, where:** old grizzled haired Central Asian chief, questions

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old grizzled haired Central Asian chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg236:2422`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:20:164
# text = Then I heard an old grizzled, long-haired Central Asian chief, who had come down with the Amir, asking questions of a native officer.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
6	grizzled	grizzled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	Central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Amir	Amir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
24	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | I | a old grizzled haired Central Asian chief |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come down** | past · perfect | a old grizzled haired Central Asian chief |  |  |  |  | with the Amir; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a old grizzled haired Central Asian chief *not said here* | questions |  |  |  | of a native officer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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