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title: There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay. Who acts: Son, snort, Pack hunting, hunted Sambhur. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 4

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There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.

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**Who acts:** Son, snort, Pack hunting, hunted Sambhur · **What happens:** check, hear, hunt, turn, yell, bellow · **To what, where:** yell, bellow, bay

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Son, snort, Pack hunting, hunted Sambhur), 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:pg236:3:4
# text = There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	yell	yell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bellow	bellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	Sambhur	Sambhur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	snort	snort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	buck	buck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | past | Son |  |  | there |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Son | the yell of the Pack hunting |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer yell=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Son *not said here* | the bellow of a hunted Sambhur |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bellow=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | past | the snort as the buck |  |  | bay |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at bay=Trajectory |
| 6 | **yell** |  | the Pack hunting |  |  |  |  |  | nom yell «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **bellow** |  | a hunted Sambhur |  |  |  |  |  | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: of=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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