The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 89

And the men who said it approached garlanded with garlands of water-lilies both blue and white, carrying clusters of lotus-flowers both red and white, chewing the fibrous stalks of water-lilies, heads wet, garments wet, with drops of water streaming from them.

Who acts: men, drops · What happens: say, garland, carry, chew, garment, stream · To what, where: point, men, clusters, fibrous stalks · Speech: someone speaks here

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, drops), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 garlanded	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 garlanded	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 men	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obj
7	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 garlanded	aux:pass
8	garlanded	garland	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 garlands	case
10	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 garlanded	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 lilies	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lilies	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 water	punct
14	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 garlands	nmod
15	both	both	CCONJ	_	16 blue	cc:preconj
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lilies	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 white	cc
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blue	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carrying	punct
20	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 garlanded	parataxis
21	clusters	cluster	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carrying	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 flowers	case
23	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flowers	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 lotus	punct
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 clusters	nmod
26	both	both	CCONJ	_	27 red	cc:preconj
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flowers	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 white	cc
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 red	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chewing	punct
31	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 carrying	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stalks	det
33	fibrous	fibrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stalks	amod
34	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chewing	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 lilies	case
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lilies	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 water	punct
38	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stalks	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 heads	punct
40	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 lilies	conj
41	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chewing	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 garments	punct
43	garments	garment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 carrying	parataxis
44	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 garments	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 drops	punct
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 drops	case
47	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 garments	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 water	case
49	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 drops	nmod
50	streaming	stream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 drops	acl
51	from	from	ADP	_	52 them	case
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 streaming	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 garlanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the men	point		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	garland	past · passive		the men	with garlands of water lilies blue	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with garland=Theme
3	carry	gerund		clusters of lotus flowers		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cluster=Theme
4	chew	gerund		the fibrous stalks of water lilies and heads	wet property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient
5	garment	present			drops of water conj; wet property	tree rules
6	stream	gerund	drops of water not said here		from men = man	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from they=Source

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 89

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 89