The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 65

Wheat he gave to rich folk, millet to the poor, Broken scraps for holy men that beg from door to door; Battle to the tiger, carrion to the kite, And rags and bones to wicked wolves without the wall at night.

Who acts: Wheat, holy men · What happens: give, break, beg · To what, where: Battle, rich folk, door

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wheat, holy men), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 folk	case
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 folk	amod
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 millet	punct
8	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 folk	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 poor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poor	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 millet	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scraps	punct
13	Broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 scraps	amod
14	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 folk	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 men	case
16	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scraps	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 beg	nsubj
19	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 men	acl:relcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 door	case
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beg	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 door	case
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beg	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 Battle	punct
25	Battle	Battle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 tiger	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tiger	det
28	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 carrion	punct
30	carrion	carrion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tiger	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 kite	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 kite	det
33	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carrion	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 rags	punct
35	And	and	CCONJ	_	36 rags	cc
36	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bones	cc
38	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 rags	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 wolves	case
40	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 wolves	amod
41	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 bones	nmod
42	without	without	ADP	_	44 wall	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 wall	det
44	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rags	nmod
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 night	case
46	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wall	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Wheat	Battle	rich folk and millet to the poor and Broken scraps for holy men		to the tiger and carrion to the kite; rags without the wall at night and bones to wicked wolves obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to folk=Recipient
2	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	beg speech: request	present	holy men			door	to door	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

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.

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