The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 55
A second time also those dicers played at dice; a second time also that dicer swallowed every ace.
Who acts: dicers, dicer · What happens: play, swallow · To what, where: dice, ace
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 (dicers, dicer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 played | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 played | advmod |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 dicers | det |
| 6 | dicers | dicer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 played | nsubj |
| 7 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 dice | case |
| 9 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 played | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 swallowed | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swallowed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 swallowed | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 swallowed | mark |
| 16 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swallowed | nsubj |
| 17 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 played | conj |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 ace | det |
| 19 | ace | ace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swallowed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | that dicers | dice | time | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | swallow | past | dicer | every ace | time | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ace=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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