The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 118

From a little hill called Hutchinson’s Hill, you could look over three and a half miles of ground covered with fighting seals; and the surf was dotted all over with the heads of seals hurrying to land and begin their share of the fighting.

Who acts: you, seals, miles · What happens: call, look, cover, dot, hurry, land · To what, where: little hill, ground, surf, share, fighting · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, seals, miles), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 hill	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hill	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hill	amod
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hill	acl
6	Hutchinson	Hutchinson	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Hill	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Hutchinson	case
8	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hill	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 look	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 look	aux
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 three	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 look	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 miles	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 half	det
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 miles	compound
18	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 three	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 ground	case
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 miles	nmod
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 ground	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 seals	case
23	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seals	compound
24	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 covered	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 dotted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dotted	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 surf	det
28	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dotted	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dotted	aux:pass
30	dotted	dot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 look	conj
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 over	advmod
32	over	over	ADV	_	30 dotted	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 heads	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 heads	det
35	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dotted	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 seals	case
37	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 heads	nmod
38	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 seals	acl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 land	mark
40	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 hurrying	xcomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 begin	cc
42	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 land	conj
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 share	nmod:poss
44	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 begin	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 fighting	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 fighting	det
47	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 share	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a little hill not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	could	you		over three and half miles of ground; from a little hill	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hill=Theme
3	cover	participle		ground not said here	with fighting seals	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with seal=Theme
4	dot	past · passive		the surf	with the heads of seals; over property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with head=Theme
5	hurry	gerund	seals not said here			tree rules
6	land	to-infinitive	seals not said here			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	begin	infinitive	seals not said here	miles's share of the fighting		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Eventuality
8	share		miles = mile	the fighting		nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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