The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 121

They were called the holluschickie--the bachelors--and there were perhaps two or three hundred thousand of them at Novastoshnah alone.

What happens: call, be · To what, where: miles, hundred thousand · 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: 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	3 called	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 holluschickie	det
5	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 bachelors	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bachelors	det
8	bachelors	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 holluschickie	conj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 were	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 were	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thousand	cop
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 thousand	advmod
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	compound
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 three	cc
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 two	conj
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thousand	compound
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 called	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thousand	nmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 Novastoshnah	case
22	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
23	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 called	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		miles = mile				at Novastoshnah	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: subject=Theme at novastoshnah=Stimulus
2	is a	past		hundred thousand				of miles = mile; perhaps property	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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