The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 65
They traveled until sundown, and then unharnessed the carts, drew them up in a contracted circle, and tied the oxen to the wheels.
Who acts: men · What happens: travel, unharness, draw up, contract, tie · To what, where: carts, men, contracted circle, oxen
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 traveled | nsubj |
| 2 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | ADP | _ | 4 sundown | case |
| 4 | sundown | sundown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traveled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unharnessed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 unharnessed | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 unharnessed | advmod |
| 8 | unharnessed | unharness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 traveled | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carts | det |
| 10 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 unharnessed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drew | punct |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unharnessed | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drew | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 drew | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 circle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 circle | det |
| 17 | contracted | contract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 circle | amod |
| 18 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tied | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tied | cc |
| 21 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 traveled | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 oxen | det |
| 23 | oxen | oxen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tied | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wheels | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wheels | det |
| 26 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tied | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 traveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | men = man | until sundown | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | unharness | past | men = man not said here | the carts | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | draw up | past | men = man not said here | men = man | a contracted circle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in circle=Destination | |||
| 4 | contract | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | tie | past | men = man not said here | the oxen | to the wheels | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent oxen=Patient to wheel=Co-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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