The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 73
So taking the dice to his own home, he painted them with deadly poison and let them dry thoroughly.
Who acts: Buddha, personages · What happens: take, paint, let, dry · To what, where: dice, own home, personages
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 (Buddha, personages), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 taking | advmod |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 painted | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dice | det |
| 4 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 home | amod |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 taking | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 painted | nsubj |
| 11 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 painted | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 poison | case |
| 14 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 poison | amod |
| 15 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 painted | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 painted | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 19 dry | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Buddha not said here | the dice | Buddha's own home | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dice=Theme to home=Destination | |||
| 2 | paint | past | Buddha | personages = personage | with deadly poison | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with poison=Theme | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Buddha not said here | personages = personage | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dry | infinitive | personages = personage not said here | thoroughly property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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