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title: All the talk we ever have heard Uttered by bat or beast or bird-- Hi… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the talk we ever have heard Uttered by bat or beast or bird-- Hide or fin or scale or feather-- Jabber it quickly and all together! Who acts: we, talk, Jabber. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 120

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All the talk we ever have heard Uttered by bat or beast or bird-- Hide or fin or scale or feather-- Jabber it quickly and all together!

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**Who acts:** we, talk, Jabber · **What happens:** hear, utter, jabber · **To what, where:** talk

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, talk, Jabber), 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:pg236:7:120
# text = All the talk we ever have heard Uttered by bat or beast or bird-- Hide or fin or scale or feather-- Jabber it quickly and all together!
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Jabber	jabber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | we | all talk *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle | all talk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by bat or beast or bird and Hide or fin or scale or feather | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **jabber** *speech: other* |  | Jabber |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |

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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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