The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 172

Take the boy into thy house, my sister, and forget not to honor the priest who sees so far into the lives of men.”

Who acts: you, priest · What happens: take, forget, honor, see · To what, where: boy, house, priest, lives

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 (you, 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 house	nmod:poss
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sister	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forget	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 forget	cc
12	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 honor	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 honor	mark
15	honor	honor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forget	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 priest	det
17	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 honor	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sees	nsubj
19	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 priest	acl:relcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 sees	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 lives	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lives	det
24	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sees	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 men	case
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lives	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the boy	thy house and my sister		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme into house=Destination
2	forget	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
3	honor	to-infinitive	you not said here	the priest			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Theme
4	see	present	the priest		the lives of men	far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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