The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 139
And of those that were in that caravan, whether men or beasts, they saw only the bare bones, for they had been eaten by that ogre, by that demon.
Who acts: beasts, ogre · What happens: be, see, eat · To what, where: caravan, bare bones, beasts
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 (beasts, ogre), 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 | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 those | case |
| 3 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 saw | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 caravan | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caravan | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 caravan | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 caravan | det |
| 8 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 those | punct |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 men | case |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 those | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 beasts | cc |
| 13 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 men | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 those | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 bones | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bones | det |
| 19 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bones | amod |
| 20 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eaten | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 eaten | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 eaten | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 eaten | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 eaten | aux:pass |
| 26 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 saw | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 ogre | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 ogre | det |
| 29 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eaten | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 demon | punct |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 demon | case |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 demon | det |
| 33 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eaten | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that caravan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | beasts = beast | the bare bones | of those whether men or beasts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | eat | past · perfect · passive | that ogre | beasts = beast | that demon conj | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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