The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 59

Kadrū said that the horses of the Sun were black, and Vinatā said that they were white, and they made a wager that whichever of the two was wrong should become a slave of the other.

Who acts: Kadrū, horses, Vinatā, two, whichever · What happens: say, be, make, become · To what, where: wager, whichever, slave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kadrū, horses, Vinatā, two), 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	Kadrū	Kadrū	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 black	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horses	det
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 black	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 horses	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 black	cop
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	Vinatā	Vinatā	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 white	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 white	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 white	cop
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wager	det
24	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 whichever	det
26	whichever	whichever	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 become	nsubj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 wrong	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 two	det
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 wrong	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wrong	cop
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 whichever	acl
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 become	aux
33	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wager	acl:relcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 slave	det
35	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 become	xcomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 other	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 other	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 slave	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kadrū			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the horses of the Sun		black property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Vinatā			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Kadrū		white property	tree rules
5	make	past	Kadrū	a wager		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wager=Product
6	is	past	the two	that whichever not said here	wrong property	tree rules
7	become	should	that whichever	a slave of the other		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 59