The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 75

Then the griffin set on a bed of darbha-grass the vessel containing the drink of immortality, and the snakes released his mother from slavery, and the griffin departed with her.

Who acts: griffin, vessel, snakes · What happens: set, contain, release, depart · To what, where: vessel, bed, drink, mother, slavery

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 (griffin, vessel, snakes), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 griffin	det
3	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
9	darbha	darbha	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grass	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 darbha	punct
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bed	nmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vessel	det
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
14	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 vessel	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 drink	det
16	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 containing	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 immortality	case
18	immortality	immortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drink	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 released	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 released	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snakes	det
22	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 released	nsubj
23	released	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 released	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 slavery	case
27	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 released	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 departed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 departed	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 griffin	det
31	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 departed	nsubj
32	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 released	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 departed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	participle	the griffin	the vessel	a bed of darbha grass	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme on bed=Destination
2	contain	gerund	the vessel not said here	the drink of immortality				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme
3	release	past	the snakes	Griffin's mother	slavery			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer mother=Source
4	depart	past	the griffin				with mother	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.

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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 75

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 75