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title: I heard the harness jingle as the mule backed and caught the camel t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I heard the harness jingle as the mule backed and caught the camel two kicks in the ribs that rang like a drum. Who acts: I, mule, ribs. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 114

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I heard the harness jingle as the mule backed and caught the camel two kicks in the ribs that rang like a drum.

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**Who acts:** I, mule, ribs · **What happens:** hear, back, catch, ring · **To what, where:** harness jingle, camel

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mule, ribs), 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:pg236:18:114
# text = I heard the harness jingle as the mule backed and caught the camel two kicks in the ribs that rang like a drum.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	jingle	jingle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	backed	back	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	kicks	kick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | I | the harness jingle |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer jingle=Stimulus |
| 2 | **back** | past | the mule |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | past | the mule *not said here* | the camel |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent camel=Beneficiary kick=Theme |
| 4 | **ring** | past | the ribs |  |  |  |  | like a drum | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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