The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 78

Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have who listens to the most silent of all living things--the wild elephant.

Who acts: Petersen, man · What happens: have, listen, live · To what, where: ears

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petersen, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Petersen	flat
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 him	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	parataxis
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 listens	nsubj
16	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 have	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 silent	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 silent	det
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 silent	advmod
20	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 listens	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 things	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 things	det
23	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 silent	obl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 elephant	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 elephant	det
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 elephant	amod
28	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 things	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Petersen	ears	now	over cock	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	have	must	a man				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	listen	present				to the silent	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to silent=Theme
4	live	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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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