The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 55
But they pierced one another and returned themselves the worse for wear.”
Who acts: men · What happens: pierce, return · To what, where: one, men
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 (men), 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 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pierced | obj |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | fixed |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 returned | cc |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pierced | conj |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 returned | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 worse | det |
| 10 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 returned | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wear | case |
| 12 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 worse | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pierced | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | past | men = man | one | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return | past | men = man not said here | men = man | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
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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