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title: “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 38

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“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg236:13:38
# text = “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Tikki	Tikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Tavi	Tavi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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