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title: Now that all the seals and their wives were on the land, you could h… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 145

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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.

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

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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 (seals, you), 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:pg236:10:145
# text = 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.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	clamor	clamor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	above	above	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	gales	gale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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