The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 118
Proceeding, he saw the five hundred carts as full as ever, and the bones of the men’s hands and all their other bones scattered in all directions.
Who acts: particle · What happens: see, scatter · To what, where: Proceeding, other bones, directions
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 (particle), 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 | Proceeding | proceeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Proceeding | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 carts | det |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 carts | nummod |
| 8 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 full | advmod |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 carts | amod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bones | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bones | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bones | det |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 men | case |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bones | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bones | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 bones | det:predet |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bones | nmod:poss |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bones | amod |
| 26 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hands | conj |
| 27 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bones | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 directions | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 directions | det |
| 30 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 scattered | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | particle | Proceeding | the hundred carts obj; the bones of the men's hands and carts's other bones obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scatter | participle | carts's other bones not said here | all directions | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in direction=Destination |
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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