The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 145

Now that all the seals and their wives were on the land, you could hear their clamor miles out to sea above the loudest gales.

Who acts: seals, you · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: land, clamor miles, loudest gales

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 (seals, you), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 land	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 land	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 seals	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 seals	det
5	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 land	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wives	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wives	nmod:poss
8	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seals	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 land	cop
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 land	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 land	det
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 hear	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hear	aux
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 land	acl:relcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 miles	nmod:poss
18	clamor	clamor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 miles	compound
19	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hear	obj
20	out	out	ADV	_	16 hear	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 sea	case
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obl
23	above	above	ADP	_	26 gales	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gales	det
25	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 gales	amod
26	gales	gale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hear	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 land	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all seals and fights's wives			the land	now		tree rules
2	hear	could	you	fights's clamor miles		the loudest gales		to sea; out property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mile=Stimulus

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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