The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 49

But they pierced and hit one another and came to grief, and on their return, lay down within the boundaries of the village, in the village-square, and at the village-gate.

Who acts: fools · What happens: pierce, hit, come, lay down, return · To what, where: village gate, one, grief, return

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fools), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 pierced	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pierced	nsubj
3	pierced	pierce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hit	cc
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pierced	conj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hit	obj
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	fixed
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 grief	case
11	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lay	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 return	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 return	nmod:poss
16	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
18	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pierced	advcl
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 lay	advmod
20	within	within	ADP	_	22 boundaries	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boundaries	det
22	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lay	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 village	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 village	det
25	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 boundaries	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 square	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 square	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 square	det
29	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 square	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 village	punct
31	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gate	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gate	cc
34	at	at	ADP	_	38 gate	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 gate	det
36	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gate	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 village	punct
38	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pierced	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pierced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pierce	past	fools = fool		the village gate		vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hit	past	fools = fool not said here	one			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme
3	come	past	fools = fool not said here		grief		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grief=Initial_Location
4	lay down	infinitive	fools = fool not said here		fools's return	within the boundaries of the village; the village square conj; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on return=Destination
5	return		fools = fool				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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 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 13, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 49