The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 38

Both before him and behind him marched the demons who formed his retinue, heads wet, garments wet, decked with garlands of water-lilies both blue and white, carrying in their hands clusters of lotus-flowers both red and white, chewing the fibrous stalks of water-lilies, streaming with drops of water and mud.

Who acts: demons · What happens: march, form, garment, deck, carry, chew · To what, where: demons, retinue, hands clusters, fibrous stalks

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 (demons), 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	Both	both	CCONJ	_	3 him	cc:preconj
2	before	before	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 marched	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 him	cc
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 him	conj
7	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 demons	det
9	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 marched	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 formed	nsubj
11	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 demons	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 retinue	nmod:poss
13	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 formed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heads	punct
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 retinue	conj
16	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 formed	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 garments	punct
18	garments	garment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 marched	conj
19	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 garments	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 decked	punct
21	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 wet	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 garlands	case
23	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 decked	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 lilies	case
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lilies	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 water	punct
27	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 garlands	nmod
28	both	both	CCONJ	_	29 blue	cc:preconj
29	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lilies	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 white	cc
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 blue	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 carrying	punct
33	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 garments	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 clusters	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hands	nmod:poss
36	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 clusters	compound
37	clusters	cluster	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 carrying	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 flowers	case
39	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 flowers	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 lotus	punct
41	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 clusters	nmod
42	both	both	CCONJ	_	43 red	cc:preconj
43	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 flowers	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 white	cc
45	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 red	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 chewing	punct
47	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 carrying	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 stalks	det
49	fibrous	fibrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 stalks	amod
50	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 chewing	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 lilies	case
52	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 lilies	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 water	punct
54	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 stalks	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 streaming	punct
56	streaming	stream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 carrying	conj
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 drops	case
58	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 streaming	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 water	case
60	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 drops	nmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 mud	cc
62	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 water	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past		the demons		before set		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent demon=Theme before he=Trajectory
2	form	past	the demons	set's retinue and heads			wet property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location retinue=Theme
3	garment	present					wet property	tree rules
4	deck	participle					with garlands of water lilies blue	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with garland=Theme
5	carry	gerund			hands clusters of lotus flowers			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cluster=Location
6	chew	gerund		the fibrous stalks of water lilies				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient
7	stream	gerund					with drops of water and mud	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with drop=Theme

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 38

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 38