The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 65
Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of seals watched them being driven, but they went on playing just the same.
Who acts: Hundreds, seals · What happens: watch, drive, go, play · To what, where: seals
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hundreds, seals), 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 | Hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hundreds | cc |
| 3 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hundreds | conj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thousands | case |
| 5 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hundreds | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 seals | case |
| 7 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thousands | nmod |
| 8 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 watched | obj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 driven | aux:pass |
| 11 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 watched | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 watched | conj |
| 16 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 playing | mark |
| 17 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 went | advcl |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 same | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 same | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 playing | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Hundreds of thousands of seals and hundreds | seals = seal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund · passive | seals = seal not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V» | |||||
| 3 | go | past | seals = seal | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | gerund | seals = seal not said here | same property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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