The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 137
I’ve met at least a hundred seals from Lukannon Beach, house hunting.
Who acts: I · What happens: meet · To what, where: hundred seals, Lukannon Beach
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | aux |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 least | case |
| 5 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 hundred | nmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 seals | nummod |
| 8 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 met | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Beach | case |
| 10 | Lukannon | Lukannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Beach | compound |
| 11 | Beach | Beach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 seals | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hunting | punct |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hunting | compound |
| 14 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seals | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present · perfect | I | hundred seals and house hunting | Lukannon Beach | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Co-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.
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