The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 58
Smeared with the strongest poison Was the die the man swallowed, but knew it not.
Who acts: strongest poison, man · What happens: smear, be, swallow, not know · To what, where: die, poison
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 (strongest poison, man), 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 | Smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 die | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 poison | det |
| 4 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 poison | amod |
| 5 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 die | nsubj |
| 6 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 die | det |
| 8 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Smeared | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swallowed | nsubj |
| 11 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swallowed | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | obj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 knew | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Smeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smear | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the strongest poison | with the die | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swallow | past | the man | the die not said here | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent die=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not know | past | the man not said here | poison | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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