The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 114
Undoubtedly he must have thrown away the water at their behest, grown weary, and been devoured; the five hundred carts must stand as full as ever.
Who acts: hundred carts · What happens: throw away, grow, devour, stand · To what, where: Buddha, behest
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 (hundred carts), 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 | Undoubtedly | undoubtedly | ADV | _ | 5 thrown | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thrown | aux |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 thrown | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 behest | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 behest | nmod:poss |
| 11 | behest | behest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thrown | conj |
| 14 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grown | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 devoured | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 devoured | cc |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 devoured | aux:pass |
| 18 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thrown | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stand | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 carts | det |
| 21 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 hundred | compound |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 carts | nummod |
| 23 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stand | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 stand | aux |
| 25 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thrown | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 full | advmod |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stand | xcomp |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 ever | case |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 full | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | must · perfect · passive | Buddha | beings's behest | the water obj; away, undoubtedly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination water=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | participle | weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | devour | participle · passive | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 4 | stand | must | the hundred carts | full property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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