The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 67
The weakened men lay down here and there and went to sleep.
Who acts: weakened men · What happens: weaken, lay down, go · To what, where: sleep
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 (weakened 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | weakened | weaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 there | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 here | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sleep | case |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weaken | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | lay down | present | the weakened men | here; there | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | go | past | the weakened men not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_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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