The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 62

They sprinkled it with milk and water, they made marks of the spread hand with scented ointment on it, they festooned it with wreaths and ropes of flowers, they burned lamps with perfumed oil before it, and round about it they hung a curtain of fine cloth.

Who acts: fruits · What happens: sprinkle, make, spread, scent, festoon, burn · To what, where: honor, marks, lamps, curtain, spread hand

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, 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 (fruits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprinkled	nsubj
2	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprinkled	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 milk	case
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprinkled	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 water	cc
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 milk	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprinkled	parataxis
11	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 hand	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hand	det
14	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 hand	amod
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marks	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 ointment	case
17	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ointment	amod
18	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hand	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ointment	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 festooned	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 festooned	nsubj
23	festooned	festoon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 festooned	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 wreaths	case
26	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 festooned	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ropes	cc
28	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wreaths	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ropes	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 burned	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 burned	nsubj
33	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprinkled	conj
34	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 burned	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 oil	case
36	perfumed	perfume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 oil	amod
37	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 burned	obl
38	before	before	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 burned	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 hung	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 hung	cc
42	round	round	ADV	_	46 hung	advmod
43	about	about	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 round	obl
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 hung	nsubj
46	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprinkled	conj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 curtain	det
48	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hung	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 cloth	case
50	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 cloth	amod
51	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 curtain	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprinkled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	past	fruits = fruit	honor		with milk and water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with milk=Theme
2	make	past	fruits = fruit	marks of the spread hand with scented ointment on honor			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mark=Product
3	spread	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scent	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	festoon	past	fruits = fruit	honor		with wreaths and ropes of flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with wreath=Theme
6	burn	past	fruits = fruit	lamps	before honor	with perfumed oil	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient with oil=Instrument
7	perfume	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
8	hang	past	fruits = fruit	a curtain of fine cloth		round property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient
9	mark			the spread hand with scented ointment on honor			nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 62

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 62