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title: “Who calls?” said Shere Khan, and a splendid peacock fluttered up ou… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Who calls?” said Shere Khan, and a splendid peacock fluttered up out of the ravine screeching. Who acts: Shere Khan, splendid peacock. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 45

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“Who calls?” said Shere Khan, and a splendid peacock fluttered up out of the ravine screeching.

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**Who acts:** Shere Khan, splendid peacock · **What happens:** call, say, flutter up, screech · **To what, where:** ravine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shere Khan, splendid peacock), 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:pg236:9:45
# text = “Who calls?” said Shere Khan, and a splendid peacock fluttered up out of the ravine screeching.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	screeching	screech	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Shere Khan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **flutter up** | participle | a splendid peacock |  |  | the ravine |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out ravine=Location |
| 4 | **screech** | gerund | a splendid peacock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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