The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 64

For lack of water to drink the men grew weary.

Who acts: men · What happens: drink, grow, lack · To what, where: water

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 (men), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 lack	case
2	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lack	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	ccomp
10	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	to-infinitive			for lack of water	tree rules
2	grow	past	the men		weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lack			water		nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

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 64

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 64