The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 68
For the first time since he was born, Bagheera was fighting for his life.
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: bear, fight · To what, where: Mowgli
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bagheera), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fighting | obl |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 born | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 time | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 10 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fighting | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fighting | aux |
| 12 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fighting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Mowgli | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fight | past · progressive | Bagheera | time | for Mowgli's life | 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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