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title: That bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat hi… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner, when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin. Who acts: bite, Rikki tikki, 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 16

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That bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner, when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin.

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**Who acts:** bite, Rikki tikki, tikki, full meal · **What happens:** paralyze, go, eat up, remember, make, want · **To what, where:** Karait, tikki, tail, slow mongoose, strength · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bite, Rikki tikki, tikki, full meal), 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:pg236:14:16
# text = That bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner, when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	paralyzed	paralyze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	Karait	Karait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	advcl	_	_
46	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	48	det:predet	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	quickness	quickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
56	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	55	obj	_	_
57	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paralyze** | participle | that bite *not said here* | Karait |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent karait=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | Rikki tikki |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat up** | to-infinitive | Rikki tikki *not said here* | tikki |  | the tail |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **remember** | past | tikki |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present | a full meal | a slow mongoose |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mongoose=Product |
| 6 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | tikki | tikki's strength and quickness |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** | must | tikki | tikki |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |

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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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