The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 112
They must have come with the thought in their minds: ‘We will make these men throw away their water, weaken them, and devour them.’
Who acts: beings, We, men · What happens: come, make, throw away, weaken, devour, mind · To what, where: water, beings
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beings, We, men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 thought | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thought | det |
| 7 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 minds | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 minds | nmod:poss |
| 10 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 13 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | parataxis |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 men | det |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 throw | nsubj |
| 18 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | ccomp |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 throw | advmod |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 water | nmod:poss |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 throw | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 weaken | punct |
| 23 | weaken | weaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 weaken | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 devour | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 devour | cc |
| 27 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 devour | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | must · perfect | beings = being | with the thought in beings's minds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | future | We | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | throw away | present | this men | beings's water | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 4 | weaken | infinitive | We not said here | beings = being | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | devour | infinitive | We not said here | beings = being | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 6 | mind | beings = being | nom mind «cognition 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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