--- title: It was a gorgeous fight, for the two fought as long as there was a s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was a gorgeous fight, for the two fought as long as there was a seal that dared lift up his head, and when there were none they paraded grandly up and down the beach side by side, bellowing. Who acts: seal, two, men. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seal, two, men), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:13:2 # text = It was a gorgeous fight, for the two fought as long as there was a seal that dared lift up his head, and when there were none they paraded grandly up and down the beach side by side, bellowing. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 gorgeous gorgeous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 as as ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 15 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 10 obl _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 paraded parade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 grandly grandly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 up up ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 down down ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 bellowing bellow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | seal | a gorgeous fight | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fight** | past | the two | | | | | long *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **be** | past | a seal | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dare** | past | a seal | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **lift up** | infinitive | a seal *not said here* | Catch's head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | past | | none | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **parade** | past | men *= man* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **bellow** | gerund | the two *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/3/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/)