The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 68

At midnight the ogres approached from the city of ogres, slew both oxen and men, every one, devoured their flesh, leaving only the bare bones, and having so done, departed.

Who acts: ogres · What happens: approach, slay, devour, leave, have, depart · To what, where: city, oxen, flesh, bare bones

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 (ogres), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 approached	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ogres	det
4	ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 approached	nsubj
5	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 approached	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 ogres	case
10	ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 city	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slew	punct
12	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 approached	conj
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 oxen	det
14	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 slew	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 men	cc
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 oxen	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 oxen	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 devoured	punct
21	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slew	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 flesh	nmod:poss
23	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 devoured	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leaving	punct
25	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 devoured	advcl
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 bones	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bones	det
28	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bones	amod
29	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leaving	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 having	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 having	cc
32	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 leaving	conj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 done	advmod
34	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 having	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 departed	punct
36	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 having	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	past	the ogres		the city of ogres	midnight		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_Location
2	slay	past	the ogres not said here	both oxen and men and every one				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient
3	devour	past	the ogres not said here	men's flesh				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient
4	leave	gerund	the ogres not said here	the bare bones				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
5	have	gerund	the ogres not said here				done property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	depart	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/68/

🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 68

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 68