The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 70
The bones of their hands and all their other bones lay scattered about in the four directions and the four intermediate directions; five hundred carts stood as full as ever.
Who acts: hundred carts · What happens: scatter, stand · To what, where: 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 (hundred carts), 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 | 2 bones | det |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bones | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bones | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 bones | det:predet |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bones | nmod:poss |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bones | amod |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hands | conj |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 scattered | aux:pass |
| 12 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 directions | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 directions | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 directions | det |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 directions | nummod |
| 17 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scattered | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 directions | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 directions | det |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 directions | nummod |
| 21 | intermediate | intermediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 directions | amod |
| 22 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 directions | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 stood | punct |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 hundred | compound |
| 25 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 carts | nummod |
| 26 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stood | nsubj |
| 27 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 scattered | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 full | advmod |
| 29 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stood | xcomp |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 ever | case |
| 31 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 full | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | present · passive | the bones of bones's hands and bones's other bones | about the four directions and the four intermediate directions | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about direction=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | hundred carts | full property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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