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title: Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of seals watched them being drive… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of seals watched them being driven, but they went on playing just the same. Who acts: Hundreds, seals. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 65

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Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of seals watched them being driven, but they went on playing just the same.

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**Who acts:** Hundreds, seals · **What happens:** watch, drive, go, play · **To what, where:** seals

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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.

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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:pg236:11:65
# text = Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of seals watched them being driven, but they went on playing just the same.
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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