The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 119

And all that were in that caravan, whether men or beasts, did that ogre, that demon, devour, leaving only the bare bones.

Who acts: that, caravan · What happens: be, devour, leave · To what, where: caravan, bare bones

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, caravan), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 devour	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 caravan	det:predet
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 caravan	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caravan	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 caravan	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 caravan	det
7	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 devour	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	14 did	mark
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 did	nsubj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 beasts	cc
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 men	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 men	punct
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 devour	aux
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 ogre	det
16	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 demon	punct
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 demon	det
19	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ogre	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 devour	punct
21	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leaving	punct
23	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 devour	advcl
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 bones	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bones	det
26	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bones	amod
27	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 leaving	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 devour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	that		all caravan	tree rules
2	devour	past · do-support	all caravan			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	leave	gerund	all caravan not said here	the bare bones		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 119

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 119