The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 36
Therefore that caravan-leader set many huge chatties in the carts and had them filled with water before he struck into the sixty-league wilderness.
Who acts: king · What happens: fill, strike · To what, where: leader set, league wilderness
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 (king), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 16 filled | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 set | det |
| 3 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leader | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 caravan | punct |
| 5 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | compound |
| 6 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chatties | amod |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chatties | amod |
| 9 | chatties | chatty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 carts | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carts | det |
| 12 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chatties | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 filled | aux |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | obl |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 struck | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 struck | nsubj |
| 21 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 filled | advcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 wilderness | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wilderness | det |
| 24 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 league | nummod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 sixty | punct |
| 26 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wilderness | compound |
| 27 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 struck | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · perfect · passive | that leader set | with water; therefore property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | king | the league wilderness | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Location |
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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