whelp

Who acts: whelp, wolf, two whelps, whelps · What happens: be, come out, play · To what, where: young animal, brothers, den

«whelp» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: whelp in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A whelp is a young animal, especially a puppy, cub or wolf cub.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 whelp	det
2	whelp	whelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 puppy	punct
8	especially	especially	ADV	_	10 puppy	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 puppy	det
10	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cub	punct
12	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 cub	cc
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cub	compound
15	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cub	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 animal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a whelp	a young animal and a puppy					tree rules

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.

Meaning 2

Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

To whelp is to give birth to young.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 whelp	mark
2	whelp	whelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	advcl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 young	case
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 give	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						to young; give property	tree rules

Example 1

A wolf came out with her whelps.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 whelps	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 whelps	nmod:poss
7	whelps	whelp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	a wolf					with wolf's whelps; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Example 2

The two whelps were brothers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whelps	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 whelps	nummod
3	whelps	whelp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brothers	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brothers	cop
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brothers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the two whelps	brothers					tree rules

Example 3

The whelps played in the den.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whelps	det
2	whelps	whelp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 den	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 den	det
6	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the whelps			the den			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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