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title: Rikki-tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keeping just out of reac… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Rikki-tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keeping just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like hot coals. Who acts: Rikki tikki, Nagaina. 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 57

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Rikki-tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keeping just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like hot coals.

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**Who acts:** Rikki tikki, Nagaina · **What happens:** bound, keep, stroke · **To what, where:** reach

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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: who acts (Rikki tikki, Nagaina), 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:pg236:15:57
# text = Rikki-tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keeping just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like hot coals.
1	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | past · progressive | Rikki tikki |  |  |  |  | round Nagaina; all *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round nagaina=Trajectory |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | Rikki tikki *not said here* | reach of Nagaina's stroke |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent reach=Theme eye=Attribute |
| 3 | **stroke** |  | Nagaina |  |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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