--- title: At the lowest counting there were over a million seals on the beach-… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the lowest counting there were over a million seals on the beach--old seals, mother seals, tiny babies, and holluschickie, fighting, scuffling, bleating, crawling, and playing together--going down to the sea and coming up from it in gangs and regiments, lying over every foot of ground as far as t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/146/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/) / 146 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 146 At the lowest counting there were over a million seals on the beach--old seals, mother seals, tiny babies, and holluschickie, fighting, scuffling, bleating, crawling, and playing together--going down to the sea and coming up from it in gangs and regiments, lying over every foot of ground as far as the eye could reach, and skirmishing about in brigades through the fog. **Who acts:** eye · **What happens:** fight, scuffle, bleat, crawl, play, go down · **To what, where:** baby, foot, fog 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 (eye), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:10:146 # text = At the lowest counting there were over a million seals on the beach--old seals, mother seals, tiny babies, and holluschickie, fighting, scuffling, bleating, crawling, and playing together--going down to the sea and coming up from it in gangs and regiments, lying over every foot of ground as far as the eye could reach, and skirmishing about in brigades through the fog. 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 lowest low ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 counting counting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 over over ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 holluschickie holluschickie NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 scuffling scuffle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 bleating bleat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 crawling crawl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 37 together together ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 parataxis _ _ 40 down down ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ _ 46 up up ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 from from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 gangs gang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 regiments regiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 55 over over ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 57 det _ _ 57 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod _ _ 60 as as ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 61 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 54 advmod _ _ 62 as as SCONJ IN _ 66 mark _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nsubj _ _ 65 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 66 aux _ _ 66 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 61 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 67 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 68 and and CCONJ CC _ 69 cc _ _ 69 skirmishing skirmish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 54 conj _ _ 70 about about ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 71 in in ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 72 brigades brigade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 69 obl _ _ 73 through through ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 74 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 75 fog fog NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 76 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **scuffle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bleat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **crawl** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **play** | gerund | | | | | | together *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **go down** | gerund | | | | | | to the sea; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **come up** | gerund | | | | baby | | in gangs and regiments | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **lie** | gerund | | | | every foot of ground | | far *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over foot=Location | | 9 | **reach** | could | the eye | | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **skirmish** | gerund | | | | the fog | | about brigades | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about brigade=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. - ← previous: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/145/) - next →: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/147/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/)