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title: Take the boy into thy house, my sister, and forget not to honor the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 172

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

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

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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.

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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:pg236:7:172
# text = Take the boy into thy house, my sister, and forget not to honor the priest who sees so far into the lives of men.”
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	honor	honor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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