The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 164

There were always a few hundred mothers hunting for their children through the playgrounds, and the babies were kept lively.

Who acts: few hundred mothers · What happens: be, hunt, keep · To what, where: playgrounds, babies

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 (few hundred mothers), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 were	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mothers	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mothers	amod
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 mothers	nummod
7	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mothers	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 children	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hunting	obl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 playgrounds	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 playgrounds	det
14	playgrounds	playground	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hunting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kept	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 babies	det
18	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kept	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	aux:pass
20	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	parataxis
21	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kept	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a few hundred mothers		there	always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	gerund	a few hundred mothers not said here		the playgrounds	for heels's children	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for child=Theme through playground=Location
3	keep	past · passive		the babies		lively property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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