The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 90
These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring.
Who acts: two things, snakes · What happens: fight
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two things, snakes), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 things | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 things | nummod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fight | nsubj |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 fight | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fight | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 fight | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 snakes | det |
| 10 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fight | nsubj |
| 11 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fight | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 spring | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spring | det |
| 14 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fight | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | this two things | in me; together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fight | present | the snakes | spring | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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