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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 60

Then Kadrū, bent on winning, actually induced her sons the snakes to defile the horses of the Sun by spitting venom over them; and showing them to Vinatā thus defiled, she conquered her by a trick and made her her slave.

Who acts: Kadrū, Vinatā · What happens: bend, induce, defile, spit, show, conquer · To what, where: Kadrū, winning, sons, horses, venom, Vinatā

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, Vinatā), 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

advmodnsubjpunctaclcaseoblpunctadvmodnmod:possobjdetconjmarkadvcldetobjcasedetnmodmarkadvclobjcaseoblpunctccadvclobjcaseobladvmodparataxispunctnsubjparataxisobjcasedetoblccconjobjnmod:possobjpunctrootThenADVKadrūPROPN,PUNCTbentVERBonADPwinningNOUN,PUNCTactuallyADVinducedVERBherPRONsonsNOUNtheDETsnakesNOUNtoPARTdefileVERBtheDEThorsesNOUNofADPtheDETSunPROPNbySCONJspittingVERBvenomNOUNoverADPthemPRON;PUNCTandCCONJshowingVERBthemPRONtoADPVinatāPROPNthusADVdefiledVERB,PUNCTshePRONconqueredVERBherPRONbyADPaDETtrickNOUNandCCONJmadeVERBherPRONherPRONslaveNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem2 Kadrūadvmod
2KadrūKadrūPROPNNumber=Sing9 inducednsubj
3,,PUNCT_4 bentpunct
4bentbendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 Kadrūacl
5ononADP_6 winningcase
6winningwinningNOUNNumber=Sing4 bentobl
7,,PUNCT_2 Kadrūpunct
8actuallyactuallyADV_9 inducedadvmod
9inducedinduceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 sonsnmod:poss
11sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur9 inducedobj
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 snakesdet
13snakessnakeNOUNNumber=Plur11 sonsconj
14totoPART_15 defilemark
15defiledefileVERBVerbForm=Inf9 inducedadvcl
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 horsesdet
17horseshorseNOUNNumber=Plur15 defileobj
18ofofADP_20 Suncase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 Sundet
20SunSunPROPNNumber=Sing17 horsesnmod
21bybySCONJ_22 spittingmark
22spittingspitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 defileadvcl
23venomvenomNOUNNumber=Sing22 spittingobj
24overoverADP_25 themcase
25themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 spittingobl
26;;PUNCT_28 showingpunct
27andandCCONJ_28 showingcc
28showingshowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 inducedadvcl
29themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 showingobj
30totoADP_31 Vinatācase
31VinatāVinatāPROPNNumber=Sing28 showingobl
32thusthusADV_33 defiledadvmod
33defileddefileVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 showingparataxis
34,,PUNCT_36 conqueredpunct
35sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 conquerednsubj
36conqueredconquerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 inducedparataxis
37hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 conqueredobj
38bybyADP_40 trickcase
39aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 trickdet
40tricktrickNOUNNumber=Sing36 conqueredobl
41andandCCONJ_42 madecc
42mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 conqueredconj
43hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs42 madeobj
44herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs45 slavenmod:poss
45slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Sing42 madeobj
46..PUNCT_9 inducedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bendparticipleKadrū not said herewinningvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on winning=Location
2inducepastKadrūVinatā's sons and the snakesactually propertyvn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3defileto-infinitiveKadrū not said herethe horses of the Suntree rules
4spitgerundKadrū not said herevenomover Kadrūvn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent venom=Theme
5showgerundKadrū not said hereKadrūVinatāvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to vinatā=Recipient
6defilepastthus propertytree rules
7conquerpastVinatāwhicheverby a trickvn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
8makepastVinatā not said hereVinatā's slaveVinatāvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary slave=Product

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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