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title: He could hear rustling and hissing in the rubbish all round him and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He could hear rustling and hissing in the rubbish all round him and gave the Call a second time, to make sure. Who acts: Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 63

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He could hear rustling and hissing in the rubbish all round him and gave the Call a second time, to make sure.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli · **What happens:** hear, rustle, hiss, give, make · **To what, where:** rubbish, Call

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli), 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:pg236:6:63
# text = He could hear rustling and hissing in the rubbish all round him and gave the Call a second time, to make sure.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	rustling	rustle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hissing	hiss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | could | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rustle** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round Mowgli | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hiss** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  | the rubbish |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rubbish=Location |
| 4 | **give** | past | Mowgli *not said here* | the Call |  |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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