The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 170

The priest was a clever man, and he knew that Messua was wife to the richest villager in the place.

Who acts: priest · What happens: be, know · To what, where: clever man, place, Messua wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knew	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 wife	mark
12	Messua	Messua	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wife	compound
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wife	cop
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 villager	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 villager	det
17	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 villager	amod
18	villager	villager	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the priest	a clever man			tree rules
2	know	past	priest	a clever man not said here	the place	to the richest villager	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	is a	past		Messua wife			tree rules

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.

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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