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title: As Rikki-tikki went up the path, he heard his “attention” notes like… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As Rikki-tikki went up the path, he heard his “attention” notes like a tiny dinner gong, and then the steady “Ding-dong-tock! Who acts: Rikki tikki, tikki. 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 87

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As Rikki-tikki went up the path, he heard his “attention” notes like a tiny dinner gong, and then the steady “Ding-dong-tock!

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**Who acts:** Rikki tikki, tikki · **What happens:** go up, hear, note · **To what, where:** path, attention notes

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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, 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:pg236:15:87
# text = As Rikki-tikki went up the path, he heard his “attention” notes like a tiny dinner gong, and then the steady “Ding-dong-tock!
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	gong	gong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
26	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Ding	ding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	dong	dong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	tock	tock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Rikki tikki | the path |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient path=Extent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | tikki | tikki's attention notes |  |  |  | like a tiny dinner gong | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
| 3 | **note** |  | tikki |  |  |  |  | like a tiny dinner gong | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl |

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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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