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title: Wheat he gave to rich folk, millet to the poor, Broken scraps for ho… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Bo
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 65

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg236:18:65
# text = 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.
1	Wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	carrion	carrion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	without	without	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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