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title: The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikk… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. Who acts: motto, Rikki tikki. 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 64

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The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

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**Who acts:** motto, Rikki tikki · **What happens:** be, find out · **To what, where:** Run, true mongoose

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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: who acts (motto, Rikki tikki), 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:pg236:13:64
# text = The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	motto	motto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Run	Run	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the motto of all mongoose family | Run and a true mongoose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find out** *in a quote* | infinitive | the motto of all mongoose family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Rikki tikki | a true mongoose |  |  |  |  | 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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