The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 117

But as there were forty or fifty thousand other seals hunting for the same thing each spring, the whistling, bellowing, roaring, and blowing on the beach was something frightful.

Who acts: thousand other seals · What happens: hunt, bellow, roar, blow, be · To what, where: beach, something

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 (thousand other seals), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	27 blowing	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 were	mark
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 blowing	obl:unmarked
5	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thousand	compound
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 fifty	cc
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 forty	conj
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 seals	nummod
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seals	amod
10	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 seals	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 thing	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	obl
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 spring	det
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thing	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whistling	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 whistling	det
20	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spring	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bellowing	punct
22	bellowing	bellow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hunting	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 roaring	punct
24	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 bellowing	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 blowing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 blowing	cc
27	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 beach	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 beach	det
30	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blowing	obl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 something	cop
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 blowing	obj
33	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 something	amod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 blowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund	thousand other seals not said here			for the same thing	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme
2	bellow	gerund	thousand other seals not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	roar	gerund	thousand other seals not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	blow	gerund			the beach		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past		something			tree rules

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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