The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 108

They come in the summer months by hundreds and hundreds of thousands out of the cold gray sea.

Who acts: People · What happens: come · To what, where: cold gray sea

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 (People), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 months	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 months	det
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 months	compound
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 hundreds	case
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hundreds	cc
10	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hundreds	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 thousands	case
12	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hundreds	nmod
13	out	out	ADP	_	18 sea	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sea	amod
17	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sea	amod
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	People			the cold gray sea	month	by hundreds and hundreds of thousands	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out sea=Initial_Location

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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