The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 121

He himself, assisted by the leaders of the force, kept watch during the three watches of the night, sword in hand, and allowed the dawn to rise upon him standing there.

Who acts: leaders, particle · What happens: assist, keep, allow, rise, stand · To what, where: particle, watch

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 (leaders, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 assisted	nsubj:pass
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 He	nmod:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 assisted	punct
4	assisted	assist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 leaders	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaders	det
7	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 assisted	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 force	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 force	det
10	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaders	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
12	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 assisted	conj
13	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obj
14	during	during	ADP	_	17 watches	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 watches	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 watches	nummod
17	watches	watch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kept	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 watches	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sword	punct
22	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 watches	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 hand	case
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sword	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 allowed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 allowed	cc
27	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 assisted	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dawn	det
29	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 allowed	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 rise	mark
31	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 allowed	xcomp
32	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	34 standing	mark
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 standing	nsubj
34	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 rise	advcl
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 standing	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 assisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	assist	participle · passive	the leaders of the force	particle			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
2	keep	participle	the leaders of the force not said here	watch		during the three watches of the night and sword in hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
3	allow	past	the leaders of the force not said here			dawn	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
4	rise not said to happen	to-infinitive	the leaders of the force not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand	gerund	particle		there		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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 121

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 121