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title: (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi) — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi) A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 103

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(Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi)

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**What happens:** sing, honor · **To what, where:** honor, Rikki tikki

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. 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:pg236:15:103
# text = (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tavi	tavi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  | honor of Rikki tikki |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honor=Location |
| 2 | **honor** |  |  | Rikki tikki |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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