The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 28
At that time, on the bank of the Ganges, reptiles of various kinds wrought such havoc among the ascetics that many of them lost their lives.
Who acts: reptiles · What happens: lose · To what, where: lives
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reptiles), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bank | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ganges | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ganges | det |
| 10 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bank | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 12 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kinds | case |
| 14 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kinds | amod |
| 15 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reptiles | nmod |
| 16 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 havoc | amod |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 havoc | amod |
| 18 | havoc | havoc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kinds | nmod |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 ascetics | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ascetics | det |
| 21 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reptiles | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 many | nsubj |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ascetics | amod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 many | nmod |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lives | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lost | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | reptiles of various kinds wrought such havoc among the ascetics | ascetics's lives | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
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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