The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 143
And in obedience to his command they threw away all those wares in their own caravan which were of little worth, and took those wares in that other caravan which were of great worth.
Who acts: drivers, own caravan, other caravan, leader · What happens: throw away, be, take, command · To what, where: wares, obedience, other caravan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (drivers, own caravan, other caravan, leader), 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 | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 obedience | case |
| 3 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 command | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 command | nmod:poss |
| 6 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obedience | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 threw | advmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 wares | det:predet |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 wares | det |
| 12 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 threw | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 caravan | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 caravan | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 caravan | amod |
| 16 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wares | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 worth | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 worth | cop |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 worth | case |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 worth | amod |
| 21 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caravan | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 threw | conj |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 wares | det |
| 26 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 caravan | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 caravan | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 caravan | amod |
| 30 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obl |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 worth | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 worth | cop |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 worth | case |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 worth | amod |
| 35 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 caravan | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | past | drivers = driver | all wares | obedience to leader's command | in drivers's own caravan; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ware=Theme in obedience=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | past | drivers's own caravan | of little worth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | drivers = driver not said here | that wares | that other caravan | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ware=Value in caravan=Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | that other caravan | of great worth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | command | leader | nom command «communication transitive»: 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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