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title: But as there were forty or fifty thousand other seals hunting for th… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as there were forty or fifty thousand other seals hunting for the same thing each spring, the whistling, bellowing, roaring, and blowing on the beach was something frightful. Who acts: thousand other seals. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its de
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 117

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But as there were forty or fifty thousand other seals hunting for the same thing each spring, the whistling, bellowing, roaring, and blowing on the beach was something frightful.

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**Who acts:** thousand other seals · **What happens:** hunt, bellow, roar, blow, be · **To what, where:** beach, something

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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 (thousand other seals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:10:117
# text = But as there were forty or fifty thousand other seals hunting for the same thing each spring, the whistling, bellowing, roaring, and blowing on the beach was something frightful.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	whistling	whistling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	bellowing	bellow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
33	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | gerund | thousand other seals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the same thing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme |
| 2 | **bellow** | gerund | thousand other seals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **roar** | gerund | thousand other seals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **blow** | gerund |  |  |  | the beach |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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